A/RES/75/172. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2020

• Year: 2020
• Resolution Number: A/RES/75/172
• Session: 75th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /75/ 172

General Assembly

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28 D ecember 2020

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Seventy -fifth sessi on

Agen da item 71

Right of peoples t o self-dete rmination

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 16 December 2020

[on th e report of the Third Committ ee (A/75/ 477, para. 19)]

75/172. The rig ht of the P alestinian p eople to self-determination

The General Assembly ,

Aware t hat the d evelopm ent of fr iendly r elations among n ations, b ased on

respe ct for the principl e of e qual ri ghts a nd sel f-dete rminatio n of peoples, is a mong

the p urposes and pri nciples of the U nited N ations, as def ined in the Char ter,

Reca llin g, in t his regard , its resol ution 26 25 (XXV) o f 24 Octobe r 1970, en titled

“Dec laration on Princi ples of In ternatio nal L aw co ncernin g Fri endly Relati ons a nd

Coop eration among S tates in accord ance wit h the Ch arter of the Un ited Nat ions”,

Bear ing in mind the I nternati onal C ovenant s on Human Rights,

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th e Univ ersal

Decl aration of H uman Rights,

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th e Dec laration on the G ranting of Indepen dence to

Colo nial Cou ntries an d People s

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and the Vie nna Decl aration a nd Progr amme of

Acti on adopt ed at th e World Co nference on Hum an Righ ts on 25 June 1 993,

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Reca lling the Decl aration on the Occa sion of the Fiftiet h Anni versary of the

Unit ed Natio ns,

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Reca lling al so the United N ations Millenni um Decl aration,

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Reca lling fur ther th e adv isory op inion re ndered o n 9 July 2004 by the

Inter nationa l Court of Justi ce on th e legal conseq uences o f the co nstructi on of a wall

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Resolut ion 22 00 A (XXI ), ann ex.

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Resolut ion 21 7 A (III) .

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Resolut ion 15 14 (XV ).

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A/CONF.15 7/24 ( Part I ), cha p. III.

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Resolut ion 50 /6.

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Resolut ion 55 /2.