Council meeting on occupied territories.

• Position: United Nations Security Council

Council meeting on occupied territories

Fourteen members of the Security Council on l February supported a draft resolution by which Israeli policies and practices "which violate the human rights of the Palestinian people" would have been deplored.

The six nations which had in January proposed the draft on Israeli actions in southern Lebanon also put forward this document (S/19466), which would have specifically called on Israel--as the occupying Power and as a High Contracting Party to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on protecting civilians in time of war--to accept the Convention's de jure applicability to the occupied territories and fully to comply with its obligations under that Convention.

Israel would also have been asked to facilitate the task of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and all Members would have been asked to give them their full support.

The Council would also have expressed its determination to achieve, under United Nations auspices, a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, "an integral part of which is the Palestinian problem". The...