SEVENTY-FOURTH SESSION, 52ND MEETING (AM)
GA/12233
19 DECEMBER 2019
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As in previous years, it adopted 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” in a vote of 160 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, United States), with 15 abstentions.
By its terms, the Assembly demanded that Israel cease exploiting, damaging, causing loss or depleting and endangering natural resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in the occupied Syrian Golan. It further stressed that the wall and settlements Israel is constructing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are contrary to international law and seriously deprive the Palestinian people of their natural resources.
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Action on Draft Resolutions
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The Assembly then turned to the report “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” (A/74/387), adopting the eponymous resolution therein in a vote of 160 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, United States), with 15 abstentions.
By that text, the Assembly demanded that Israel cease exploiting, damaging, causing loss or depleting and endangering natural resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan. Further, it stressed that the wall and settlements being constructed by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are contrary to international law and seriously deprive the Palestinian people of their natural resources.
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For information media. Not an official record.
Document Sources: General Assembly, General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial), United Nations Department of Global Communications
Country: Syria
Subject: Agenda Item, Golan Heights, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Natural resources, Occupation
Publication Date: 19/12/2019
URL source: https://www.un.org/press/fr/2019/ag12233.doc.htm