{"id":185519,"date":"2001-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=185519"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:55:13","slug":"auto-insert-185519","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185519\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine refugees &#8211; Properties and revenues &#8211; SecGen report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Palestine refugees&#8217; properties and their revenues<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Report of the Secretary-General<\/strong>*<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The present report is submitted pursuant to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/711AE3531B7D133D85256A0E004E3B39.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">General Assembly resolution 55\/128<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;of 8 December 2000 on Palestine refugees&#8217; properties and their revenues. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On 20 July 2001, the Secretary-General drew the attention of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations to resolutions 55\/123 to 55\/129 of 8 December 2000, with the request that the Permanent Representative inform him, by 7 September 2001, of any steps his Government had taken or envisaged taking in implementation of the relevant provisions of the resolutions.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On 27 July 2001, the Secretary-General sent a note verbale to all other Member States drawing their attention to the relevant provisions of resolutions <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/A054FE7A454EB73C85256A10004E34FF.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">55\/123<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/5C5653065995DF6A85256A16004FC4FC.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">55\/129<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, in particular to paragraph 5 of resolution 55\/128, and requesting information, by 7 September 2001, concerning any action taken or envisaged in relation to their implementation.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A reply dated 17 September 2001 was received from Israel, covering various aspects of resolutions 55\/123 to 55\/129. The text reads as follows:&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Israel&#8217;s position on these resolutions has been set forth in successive annual replies submitted to the Secretary-General in recent years, the latest of which being Israel&#8217;s note verbale of 6 September 2000. Israel regrets the fact that the resolutions regarding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) remain rife with political issues irrelevant to the work for which UNRWA is responsible and thus remain detached from the reality in the area. Accordingly, Israel abstained on resolution 55\/126 and voted against resolutions 55\/123, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/BD15B59C6CCF7DBB85256A0A0052C196.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">55\/125<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/A7CEF288008CA9C685256A150050EA41.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">55\/127<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, 55\/128 and 55\/129. <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The resolutions concerning UNRWA should respect the terms of reference of the peace process, which call for the resolution of all outstanding issues through bilateral negotiations. In light of the present difficulties in the region and the continued acts of violence and terrorism, it is especially important now that the agreed terms of the peace process receive encouragement and support from concerned parties in the region and the international community, including through the resolutions regarding the functioning of UNRWA.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Israel believes that UNRWA can play an important role in promoting the social and economic advancement foreseen in the agreements between Israel and the Palestinians, within the limits of its humanitarian mandate, and accordingly looks forward to continuing the cooperation and good working relationship with UNRWA.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;In light of the above, Israel considers it essential that the General Assembly consolidate the resolutions regarding UNRWA into one resolution directly related to the Agency&#8217;s humanitarian tasks and refrain from including elements that threaten to prejudge issues that are subject to negotiations between the parties. This would also be compatible with the necessity to rationalize the work of the General Assembly.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No replies have been received from other Member States with regard to paragraph 5 of resolution 55\/128.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">_____________<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The footnote requested by General Assembly resolution 54\/248 was not included in the submission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine refugees&#8217; properties and their revenues Report of the Secretary-General* 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 55\/128&nbsp;of 8 December 2000 on Palestine refugees&#8217; properties and their revenues. 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On 20 July 2001, the Secretary-General drew the attention of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations to resolutions 55\/123 to 55\/129 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185519\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1323],"document-source":[1365],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-185519","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-report","document-source-general-assembly","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/185519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/185519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=185519"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=185519"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=185519"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=185519"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=185519"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=185519"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=185519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}