A/RES/63/31. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2008

• Resolution Number: A/RES/63/31
• Year: 2008
• Session: 63rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/63/31

General Assembly Distr.: General

23 January 2009

Sixty-third session

Agenda item 15

08-47265

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 26 November 2008

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/63/L.37 and Add.1)]

63/31. The Syrian Golan

The General Assembly

,

Having considered

the item entitled “The situation in the Middle East”,

Taking note

of the report of the Secretary-General,

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Recalling

Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,

Reaffirming

the fundamental principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition

of territory by force, in accordance with international law and the Charter of the

United Nations,

Reaffirming once more

the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to

the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,

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to the

occupied Syrian Golan,

Deeply concerned

that Israel has not withdrawn from the Syrian Golan, which

has been under occupation since 1967, contrary to the relevant Security Council and

General Assembly resolutions,

Stressing

the illegality of the Israeli settlement construction and other

activities in the occupied Syrian Golan since 1967,

Noting with satisfaction

the convening in Madrid on 30 October 1991 of the

Peace Conference on the Middle East, on the basis of Security Council resolutions

242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 and 425 (1978) of

19 March 1978 and the formula of land for peace,

Expressing grave concern

over the halt in the peace process on the Syrian

track, and expressing the hope that peace talks will soon resume from the point they

had reached,

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Declares

that Israel has failed so far to comply with Security Council

resolution 497 (1981);

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1 A/63/361.

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