Human rights situation in the OPT – CHR – Letter from Palestine

QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED

ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

Note verbale dated 16 December 2002 from the Permanent Representative

of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the

secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights

The Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva presents its compliments to the secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights and has the honour to enclose herewith Israel’s response^* to the report and addendum of Mr. John Dugard, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights dealing with the West Bank and Gaza, to the United Nations General Assembly, contained in documents A/57/366 and Add.1.

The Permanent Mission of Israel requests that this document be circulated as an official document under agenda item 8 of the agenda of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights.

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*Reproduced in the annex as received, in the language of submission only.

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