A/RES/ES-7/2 GA

General Assembly-Seventh Emergency Special Session D. RESOLUTIONS2 ES-7 / 1. Credentials of representatives to the seventh emergency special session of the General Assembly The General Assembly Approves the report of the Credentials Committee. 8 11 th plenary meeting 29 July 1980 ES-7 /2. Question of Palestine The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Palestine at an emergency special session, Convinced that the failure to solve this question poses a grave threat to international peace and security, Noting with regret and concern that the Security Council, at its 2220th meeting on 30 April 1980, failed to take a decision, as a result of the negative vote of the United States of America, on the recommendations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People endorsed by the General As- sembly in its resolutions 31/20 of 24 J•.Tovember 1976, 32/40 A of 2 December 1977, 33/28 A of 7 Decem- ber 1978 and 34/65 A of 29 November 1979, Having considered the letter dated 1 July 1980 from the Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,4 Having heard the statement by the Observer of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, 5 l. Recalls and reaffirms its resolutions 3236 (XXIX) and 3237 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974 and all other relevant United Nations resolutions pertinent to the question of Palestine; 2. Reaffirms, in particular, that a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East cannot be es- tablished, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the relevant United Nations resolutions, without the withdrawal of Israel from all the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories, including Jeru- salem, and without the achievement of a just solution of the problem of Palestine on the basis of the attainment of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in Palestine; 3. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property in Palestine, from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and calls for their return; 2 Resolutions adopted without reference to ? Main Committee, the General Assembly having convened in p!,.nary n•eeting only in accordance with rule 63 of its rules of procedu:<' 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventh Emergency Special Session, Annexes, agenda item 3, document A/ES-7/13 4 Ibid., agenda item 5, document A/ES-7 /l, annex. 5 lbid., Seventh Emergency Special Session, Plenary Meetings, 1st meeting, paras. 171-217. 3 4. Reaffirms also the inalienable rights in Palestine of the Palestinian people, including: (a) The right to self-determination without ex- ternal interference, and to national independence and sovereignty; (b) The right to establish its own independent sovereign State; 5. Reaffirms the right of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian peo- ple, to participate on an equal footing in all efforts, deliberations and conferences on the question of Pales- tine and the situation in the Middle East within the framework of the United Nations; 6. Reaffirms the fundamental principle of the inad- missibility of the acquisition of territory by force; 7. Calls upon Israel to withdraw completely and un- conditionally from all the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since June 1967, including J eru- salem, with all property and services intact, and urges that such withdrawal from all the occupied territories should start before 15 November 1980; 8. Demands that Israel should fully comply with provisions of resolution 465 (1980) adopted unanimously by the Security Council on 1 March 1980; 9. Further demands that Israel should fully comply with all United Nations resolutions relevant to the his- toric character of the Holy City of Jerusalem, in par- ticular Security Council resolution 476 (1980) of 30 June 1980; 10. Expresses its opposition to all policies and plans aimed at the resettlement of the Palestinians outside their homeland; 11. Requests and authorizes the Secretary-General, in consultation, as appropriate, with the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to take the necessary measures towards the im- plementation of the recommendations contained in para- graphs 59 to 72 of the report of the Committee to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session° as a basis for the solution of the question of Palestine; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session on the imple- mentation of the present resolution; 13. Requests the Security Council, in the event of non-compliance by Israel with the present resolution, to convene m order to consider the situation and the adop- tion of effective measures under Chapter VII of the Charter; 14. Decides to adjourn the seventh emergency special session temporarily and to authorize the Presi- dent of the latest regular session of the General Assembly to resume its meetings upon request from Member States. 11 th plenary meeting 29 July 1980 6 lbid., Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/31/35).

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