Resolution 59/125
(December 10, 2004)
The
General Assembly,
Having considered the report
of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting
the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied
Territories,1
Deeply
concerned that the Syrian Golan,
occupied since 1967, has been under continued Israeli military occupation,
Recalling Security Council resolution
497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling
also its previous relevant resolutions,
the most recent of which was resolution 58/100 of 9 December 2003,
Having considered the report
of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of resolution 58/100,2
Recalling its previous relevant resolutions
in which, inter alia, it called upon Israel to put an end to its occupation
of the Arab territories,
Reaffirming once more the illegality
of the decision of 14 December 1981 taken by Israel to impose its laws,
jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which
has resulted in the effective annexation of that territory,
Reaffirming that the acquisition of territory
by force is inadmissible under international law, including the Charter
of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the applicability
of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,3 to the occupied Syrian Golan,
Bearing
in mind Security Council resolution
237 (1967) of 14 June 1967,
Welcoming the convening at Madrid of the
Peace Conference on the Middle East on the basis of Security Council
resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22 October
1973 aimed at the realization of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace,
and expressing grave concern about the stalling of the peace process
on all tracks,
1. Calls upon Israel, the occupying
Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions on the occupied Syrian
Golan, in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which
the Council, inter alia, decided that the Israeli decision to impose
its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan
was null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded
that Israel, the occupying Power, rescind forthwith its decision;
2. Also calls upon Israel to desist
from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional
structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan and in particular
to desist from the establishment of settlements;
3. Determines that all legislative
and administrative measures and actions taken or to be taken by Israel,
the occupying Power, that purport to alter the character and legal status
of the occupied Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant
violation of international law and of the Geneva Convention relative
to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,3 and have no legal effect;
4. Calls
upon Israel to desist from imposing
Israeli citizenship and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens
in the occupied Syrian Golan, and from its repressive measures against
the population of the occupied Syrian Golan;
5. Deplores the violations by Israel
of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War, of 12 August 1949;
6. Calls once again upon Member
States not to recognize any of the legislative or administrative measures
and actions referred to above;
7. Requests the Secretary-General
to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation
of the present resolution.
71st plenary meeting
10 December 2004
1 See A/59/381.
2 A/59/338.
3 United Nations, Treaty
Series, vol. 75, No.
973.
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