A/RES/65/202. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/202
• Year: 2010
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/202

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 March 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 67

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/455)]

65/202. The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination

The General Assembly

,

Aware

that the development of friendly relations among nations, based on

respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, is among

the purposes and principles of the United Nations, as defined in the Charter,

Recalling

, in this regard, its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970

entitled “Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly

Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the

United Nations”,

Bearing in mind

the International Covenants on Human Rights,

1

the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights,

2

the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to

Colonial Countries and Peoples

3

and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of

Action adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,

4

Recalling

the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the

United Nations,

5

Recalling also

the United Nations Millennium Declaration,

6

Recalling further

the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the

International Court of Justice on the

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a

Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

,

7

and noting in particular the reply of the

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1 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

2 Resolution 217 A (III).

3 Resolution 1514 (XV).

4 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

5 See resolution 50/6.

6 See resolution 55/2.

7 See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1; see also Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied

Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 2004, p. 136.