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3. Calls upon all States to co-operate with the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on the Question of Palestine in the implementation of the present resolution and invites them to establish national focal points for effective co-ordination of .preparations at the national level. 31st plenary meeting 19 August 1982 ES-7/8. International Day.of Innocent Oiildren Victims of Aggression The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Palestine at its resumed seventh emergency special session, Appalled by the great nwnber_ of iMocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel's acts of aggression, Decides to camnemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Qiildren Victims of Aggression. FS-7/9. gyestion of Palestine The General Assembly, 31st plenary meeting 19 August 1982 Having considered the question of Palestine at its resumed seventh emergency special session, Having heard the ata·tement of the Palestin, Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, W Recalling and reaffirming, in particular, its resolution 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, Appalled at the massacre of Palestinian civilians in Beirut, RecalliQS Security Council reso.lution·s 08 (1982) of 5 June 1982, 509 (1982) of 6 June 1982, 513 (1982) of 4 July 1982, 520 (1982) of 17 September 1982 and 521 (1982) of 19 September. ':1982, Taking note of the reports of the Secretary-General relevant to the situation, particularly his report of 18 September 1982, .!Q./ .ll/ . See A/E-7 /PV. 32. 20/ S/15400. -13-. Noting with regret that the Security Council has so far not taken effective and practical measures, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to ensure implementation of its resolutions 508 (1982) and 509 (1982)-, Referring to the humanitarian principles of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, !_1/ and _to the obligations arising from the regulations aMexed to the Hague Convention■ of 1907, W Deeply concerned at the sufferings of the Palestinian and Lebanese civilian populations, Noting the homelessness of the Palestinian people, Reaffirming the imperative need to permit the Palestinian people to exercise their legitimate rights, l. Condemns the criminal masaacre of Palestinian and other civilians in Beirut on 17 September 1982, 2. Urges the Security Council to investigate, through the means available to it, the circumstances and extent of the massacre of Palestinian and other civilians in Beirut on 17 September 1982, and to make public the report on its findings as soon as possible, 3. Decides to support fully the provisions of Security Council resolutions 508 (1982) and 509 (1982), in which the Council, inter alia, demanded thatt (a) I.srael withdraw all its military forces forthwith and unconditionally to the internationally recognized boundaries of Lebanon, (b) All parties to the conflict cease immediately and simultaneously all military activities within Lebanon and across the LebanesĝIsraeli border, 4. Demands that all Member States and other parties observe strict respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity and political independence of Lebanon within its internationally recognized boundaries, s. Reaffirms the fundamental principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, 6. Resolves that, in conformity with its resolution 194 (III) and subsequent relevant resolutions, the Palestinian refugees should be enabled to return to their hcnes and property from which they have been uprooted and displaced, . and daands that Israel comply unconditionally and immediately with the present resolution, W United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973, p. 287 •. W Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The &ague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Presa, 1915). 7. Urges the Security Council, in the event of continued failure by Israel to comply with the de•nds contained in resolutions 508 (1982) and S09 (1982) and the present resolution, to meet in order to consider practical ways and means in accordance with the Olarter of the united Nations, a. Calls upon all States and international agencies and organizations to continue to provide the most extensive hu•nitarian aid possible to the victima of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 9. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a photographic exhibit of the massacre of 17 September 1982 and to display it in the United Nations visitors' hallJ 10. Decides to adjourn the seventh emergency special session temporarily and to authorize the President of the latest regular session of the General Assembly to resume its •etings upon request from kember States. -15- 32nd plenary meeting 24 September 1982

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