Resolution 44/235
(December 22, 1989)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 43/178 of 20 December
1988,
Taking note of Economic and Social Council
resolution 1989/96 of 26 July 1989,
Taking into account the intifadah of the
Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory against the
Israeli occupation, including Israeli economic and social policies and
practices,
Rejecting Israeli restrictions on external
economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people in the occupied
Palestinian territory,
Aware of the increasing need to provide economic
and social assistance to the Palestinian people,
Affirming that the Palestinian people cannot
develop their national economy as long as the Israeli occupation persists,
1. Takes note of the report annexed to the note
by the Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people;1/
2. Expresses its appreciation to the States,
United Nations bodies and intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations that have provided assistance to the Palestinian people;
3. Requests the international community, the
organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to sustain and increase their assistance to
the Palestinian people, in close co-operation with the Palestine Liberation
Organization;
4. Calls for the treatment on a transit basis of
Palestinian exports and imports passing through neighbouring ports and
points of exit and entry;
5. Also calls for the granting of trade
concessions and concrete preferential measures for Palestinian exports on
the basis of Palestinian certificates of origin;
6. Further calls for the immediate lifting of
Israeli restrictions and obstacles hindering the implementation of
assistance projects by the United Nations Development Programme, other
United Nations bodies and others providing economic and social assistance
to the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory;
7. Reiterates its call for the implementation of
development projects in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the
projects mentioned in its resolution 39/223 of 18 December 1984;
8. Requests the Secretary-General to report to
the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session, through the Economic and
Social Council, on the progress made in the implementation of the present
resolution.
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1/ A/44/637.
RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 44/235: 146-2-1
In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola,
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana,
Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Byelorussia,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China,
Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia,
Democratic Kampuchea, Democratic Yemen, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland,
France, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of
Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy,
Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon,
Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia,
Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger,
Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines,
Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan,
Suriname, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia,
Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USSR, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United
Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen,
Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Against: Israel, United States.
Abstaining: Canada.
Absent: Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada,
Kenya*, Panama, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Swaziland.
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*Later advised the Secretariat that it had intended to vote in favour.
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