A/RES/67/119. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2012

• Resolution Number: A/RES/67/119
• Session: 67th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/67/119

General Assembly Distr.: General

14 January 2013

Sixty-seventh session

Agenda item 53

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2012

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/67/424)]

67/119. Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to

the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of

12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory,

including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab

territories

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its relevant resolutions, including resolution 66/77 of 9 December

2011,

Bearing in mind

the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,

Recalling

the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention IV of 1907,

1

the

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of

12 August 1949,

2

and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified

in Additional Protocol I

3

to the four Geneva Conventions,

4

Having considered

the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli

Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of

the Occupied Territories

5

and the relevant reports of the Secretary-General,

6

Considering

that the promotion of respect for the obligations arising from the

Charter of the United Nations and other instruments and rules of international law is

among the basic purposes and principles of the United Nations,

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1 See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and

1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

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

3 Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.

4 Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.

5 A/67/550.

6 A/67/332, A/67/338, A/67/372, A/67/375 and A/67/511.