UNITED NATIONS General Assembly
A/RES/50/22
12 December 1995
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 44
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/50/L.37 and Add.1 and
A/50/L.38 and Add.1)]
50/22. The situation in the Middle East
A
Jerusalem
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 36/120 E of 10 December 1981, 37/123 C of 16
December 1982, 38/180 C of 19 December 1983, 39/146 C of 14 December 1984,
40/168 C of 16 December 1985, 41/162 C of 4 December 1986, 42/209 D of 11
December 1987, 43/54 C of 6 December 1988, 44/40 C of 4 December 1989,
45/83 C of 13 December 1990, 46/82 B of 16 December 1991, 47/63 B of 11
December 1992, 48/59 A of 14 December 1993 and 49/87 A of 16 December
1994, in which it determined that all legislative and administrative
measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which had
altered or purported to alter the character and status of the Holy City of
Jerusalem, in particular the so-called "Basic Law" on Jerusalem and the
proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, were null and void and
must be rescinded forthwith,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 478 (1980) of 20 August 1980,
in which the Council, inter alia, decided not to recognize the "Basic Law"
and called upon those States that had established diplomatic missions at
Jerusalem to withdraw such missions from the Holy City,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General of 24 October
1995, A/50/574.
1. Determines that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction
and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem is illegal and therefore
null and void and has no validity whatsoever;
2. Deplores the transfer by some States of their diplomatic missions to
Jerusalem in violation of Security Council resolution 478 (1980), and
their refusal to comply with the provisions of that resolution;
3. Calls once more upon those States to abide by the provisions of the
relevant United Nations resolutions, in conformity with the Charter of the
United Nations;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
fifty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.
79th plenary meeting
4 December 1995
B
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 of 24 October 1995,
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Reaffirming the fundamental principle of the inadmissibility of the
acquisition of territory by force,
Reaffirming once more the applicability of the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12
August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973. 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,
Noting with satisfaction the convening at Madrid of the Peace Conference
on the Middle East on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967)
of 22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973, with the hope that
substantial and concrete progress will be achieved on the Syrian and
Lebanese tracks for the realization of a just, comprehensive and lasting
peace in the region,
1. Declares that Israel has failed so far to comply with Security Council
resolution 497 (1981);
2. Declares also that the Knesset decision of 11 November 1991 annexing
the occupied Syrian Golan constitutes a grave violation of resolution 497
(1981) and therefore is null and void and has no validity whatsoever, and
calls upon Israel to rescind it;
3. Reaffirms its determination that all relevant provisions of the
Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention of 1907, See Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations
of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915). and the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,
of 12 August 1949, continue to apply to the Syrian territory occupied by
Israel since 1967, and calls upon the parties thereto to respect and
ensure respect for their obligations under those instruments in all
circumstances;
4. Determines once more that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan
and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling-block in the way of
achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region;
5. Demands once more that Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian
Golan to the line of 4 June 1967 in implementation of the relevant
Security Council resolutions;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
fifty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.
79th plenary meeting
4 December 1995