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UNITED
NATIONS
E
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/46/3/Rev.1
31 December 1991
Original: English
Forty-sixth session
Official Records
Supplement No. 3
REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
FOR THE YEAR 1991
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IV. QUESTIONS CONSIDERED DIRECTLY IN PLENARY MEETING
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H. Permanent sovereignty over national resources in the
occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories
43. The Council considered the question of permanent sovereignty over national resources in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories at its second regular session of 1991 (agenda item 5). It had before it a note by the Secretary-General on Israeli land and water policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories (
A/46/263-E/1991/88
).
44. The Council considered the item at its 28th, 30th and 31st meetings, on 17, 24 and 26 July 1991. An account of the discussion is contained in the relevant summary records (E/1991/SR.28, 30 and 31).
45. At the 28th meeting, on 17 July, the Council held a general discussion on the item. Statements were made by the representatives of the Syrian Arab Republic, Algeria, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Bahrain and Morocco and the observers for Israel and Egypt. The observer for Palestine also made a statement.
Other Arab territories
46. At the 30th meeting, on 24 July, the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic, on behalf of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt,
1
/ Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon,
1
/ the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
1
/ Morocco, Qatar,
1
/ Saudi Arabia,
1
/ Somalia, the Sudan,
1
/ the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates
1
/ and Yemen,
1
/ introduced a draft resolution (E/1991/L.36) entitled "Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories". Subsequently, Pakistan, Viet Nam
1
/ and Zambia joined in sponsoring the draft resolution, which read as follows:
"The Economic and Social Council
,
"
Guided
by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and by Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 and 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981 and the relevant General Assembly resolutions affirming that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible under the Charter of the United Nations,
"
Recalling
Security Council resolution 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980, General Assembly resolution 45/74 of 11 December 1990 and the other relevant resolutions affirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,
4
/ to the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
"
Expressing its concern
at the ongoing establishment by Israel, the occupying Power, of settlements in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories and the settlement of new Jewish immigrants in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories,
"1.
Condemns
Israel's establishment of settlements in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories, including Jerusalem, and regards those practices as unlawful and without any legal effect, as specified in Security Council resolutions 446 (1979) and 465 (1980) and the relevant General Assembly resolutions;
"2.
Decides
that the establishment of settlements and their ongoing construction in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories, and the settlement of new Jewish immigrants therein, constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to the achievement of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East;
"3.
Strongly condemns
Israel's practices in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories, including its confiscation of land, its diversion of water resources, its depletion of the natural and economic resources of the occupied territories and its displacement and deportation of the population of those territories;
"4.
Reaffirms
the established and inalienable right of the Palestinian people of the Palestinian territory, the population of the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories to full sovereignty over their natural and economic resources and regards any infringement thereof as null and void and without any legal effect;
"5.
Requests
the Secretary-General to prepare a report on the economic and social consequences of Israel's establishment of settlements in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories, for submission to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session through the Economic and Social Council."
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4
/ United Nations,
Treaty Series
, vol. 75, No. 973.
47. At the 3lst meeting, on 26 July, the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic orally revised the draft resolution by deleting the words "of the Palestinian territory" after the words "of the Palestinian people" in operative paragraph 4.
48. Also at the 31st meeting, the Vice-President of the Council, Mr. Razali Ismail (Malaysia), introduced a draft decision (E/1991/L.41) entitled "Permanent sovereignty over national resources in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories", submitted on the basis of informal consultations held on draft resolution E/1991/L.36. The draft decision read as follows:
"The Economic and Social Council decides to transmit the draft resolution entitled 'Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied territories' (E/1991/L.36) to the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session for consideration, in view of the special importance of the subject and inadequacy of time."
49. In introducing the draft decision, the Vice-President revised it to read as follows:
"The Economic and Social Council, after considering the draft resolution entitled 'Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory, the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories' (E/1991/L.30) and in view of the special importance of the subject and constraints of time, decides to refer the draft resolution to the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session for consideration."
50. At the same meeting, the Council adopted draft decision E/1991/L.41, as orally revised. For the final text, see Council decision 1991/279.
Report of the Secretary-General on Israeli land and water policies and
practices in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories
51. At the 31st meeting, on 26 July, on the proposal of the President, the Council took note of the report of the Secretary-General on Israeli land and water policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories (A/46/263-E/1991/88). See Council decision 1991/280.
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