Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination – Third Cttee debate – Summary record (excerpts)

General Assembly

Fifty-fourth session

Official Records

Third Committee

Summary record of the 29th meeting

Held at Headquarters, New York, on Tuesday, 2 November 1999, at 3 p.m.

Contents

Agenda item 107: Crime prevention and criminal justice (continued)

Agenda item 109: Advancement of women (continued)

Agenda item 115: Right of peoples to self-determination (continued)

Agenda item 116: Human rights questions

(a)  Implementation of human rights instruments

The meeting was called to order at 3.10 p.m.

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Agenda item 115: Right of peoples to self-determination (continued) (A/C.3/54/L.29)

Draft resolution A/C.3/54/L.29: The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination

4. Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt), introducing draft resolution A/C.3/54/L.29 on behalf of its sponsors, said that Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, the Comoros, Japan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon and the United Republic of Tanzania had also become sponsors. He summarized the main points of the draft resolution and expressed his hope that it would be adopted by consensus.

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The meeting rose at 5.35 p.m.