A/RES/58/93. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2003

• Resolution Number: A/RES/58/93
• Session: 58th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/58/93

General Assembly Distr.: General

17 December 2003

Fifty-eighth session

Agenda item 83

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2003

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/58/472)]

58/93. Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency

for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of

19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related

resolutions, including resolution 57/121 of 11 December 2002,

Recalling also

the relevant Security Council resolutions,

Having considered

the report of the Commissioner-General of the United

Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering

the period from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003,

1

Taking note

of the letter dated 25 September 2003 from the Chairperson of the

Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine

Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General,

2

Deeply concerned

about the continuing critical financial situation of the

Agency and its effect on the continuing provision of necessary Agency services to

the Palestine refugees, including its emergency-related programmes and its

development programmes,

Recalling

Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and

the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,

3

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 Palestinian territory

occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem,

Aware

of the continuing needs of Palestine refugees throughout the Occupied

Palestinian Territory and in the other fields of operation, namely, in Jordan, Lebanon

and the Syrian Arab Republic,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 13 and corrigendum and

addendum (A/58/13 and Corr.1 and Add.1).

2 Ibid., Supplement No. 13 and corrigendum (A/58/13 and Corr.1), p. viii.

3 Resolution 22 A (I).

4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.