A/RES/55/55. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2000

• Year: 2000
• Resolution Number: A/RES/55/55
• Session: 55th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/55/55

General Assembly Distr.: General

25 January 2001

Fifty-fifth session

Agenda item 41

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.48 and Add.1)]

55/55. Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine

The Genera l Assembly,

Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions adopted at the tenth

emergency special session,

Recalling also the relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions

242 (1967) of 22 November 1 967 and 338 (1973) of 22 Octo ber 1973,

Awar e that it has been more than fifty years since the adoption of resolution

181 (II) of 29 November 1947 and thirty-three years since the occupation of

Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, in 1967,

Having considered the report of the Secretar y-General

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submitted pursuant to

the request made in its resolution 54/42 of 1 December 1999,

Reaffirming the per manent responsibility of the United Nations with regard to

the question of Palestine until the question is resolved in all its aspects,

Convinced that achieving a final and peaceful settlement of the question of

Palestine, the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict, is imperative for the attainment of a

comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East,

Awar e that the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples is

among the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations,

Affirming the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by

war,

Affirming also the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the territory occupied

since 1967 and of Israeli actions aimed at changing the status of Jerusalem,

Affirming once again the right of all States in the region to live in peace within

secure and internationally recognized borders,

Recalling the mutual recognition between the Government of the State of

Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian

people, and the signing by the two parties of the Declaration of Principles on Interim

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