Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the OPT, Golan – Second Committee’s Introduction of draft resolution – Press release (excerpts)


General Assembly

GA/EF/3297


Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York


Sixty-fifth General Assembly

Second Committee

28th Meeting (AM)

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Earlier, the Committee heard the introduction of 17 draft resolutions relating to the following agenda items:  sustainable development; follow up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference; implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat); international migration and development; implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017); agriculture development and food security; and permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.

Introducing those drafts were representatives of Yemen (on behalf of the “Group of 77” developing countries and China), Lithuania, Honduras, Panama, Tajikistan, Bolivia and Egypt.

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Introduction of Draft Resolutions

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The representative of Egypt introduced a text on permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (document A/C.2/65/L.31).

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2019-03-12T16:35:13-04:00

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