Council of Europe – Situation in the Middle East – PACE Recommendation/Non-UN document

Parliamentary Assembly

Assemblée parlementaire

Recommendation 1707 (2005)¹

Situation in the Middle East

1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers to its Resolution 1452 (2005) and recalls its Resolution 1156 (1998) and Recommendation 1612 (2003) proposing the establishment of a Palestine refugee and displaced persons final status fund under the aegis of the United Nations to finance the cost of resettlement and compensation.

2. The Assembly asks the Committee of Ministers to promote this proposal at every appropriate opportunity including the forthcoming international donors conference in London.

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¹Assembly debate on 21 June 2005 (19th Sitting) (see Doc. 10570, report of the Political Affairs Committee, rapporteur: Mr Margelov; and Doc. 10594, opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur: Mr McNamara).

Text adopted by the Assembly on 21 June 2005 (19th Sitting).