Assistance to the Palestinian People

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1989.

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46 versions · 1979–2024

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What subjects does this mandate have?

11 topics

Aid Programmes Development Assistance Economic Policy Emergency Relief Israel Palestine Question Palestinian Uprising Palestinians Programme Implementation Territories Occupied by Israel Trade Preferences

What does this mandate say?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people; IO 2.

Regrets that the programme of economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people has not been developed as requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 42/166;

Requests the Secretary-General to charge the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) with supervising the development of the programme and to provide it with the funds needed to engage twenty experts to prepare an adequate programme, in close cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization, taking into account the intifadah of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and its implications;

Expresses its appreciation to those States, United Nations bodies and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations that have provided assistance to the Palestinian people;

Urges Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations to disburse their aid or any other forms of assistance to the occupied Palestinian territory solely for the benefit of the Palestinian people and in a manner that will not serve to prolong the Israelí occupation;

Calls for the provision of emergency assistance to the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian terri-

tory, including the dispatch of teams of orthopaedic surgeons;

Requests Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations to sustain and increase their assistance to the Palestinian people, in close co-operation with the Palestine Liberation Organization;

Requests ali Member States and donors that provide any form of assistance to the occupied Palestinian West Bank to sustain and increase that assistance and to channel it to the Palestinian people through their representative, the Palestine Liberation Organization;

Decides to extend to the occupied Palestinian territory the same preferential treatment accorded the least developed countries, pending the elimination of the Israelí occupation and the assumption of full control by the Palestinian people over their national economy without externa! interference;

Calls for treatment on a transit basis of Palestinian exports and imports passing through neighbouring ports and points of exit and entry;

Also calls for the granting of trade concessions and concrete preferential measures for Palestinian exports on the basis of certificates of origin issued by Palestinian bodies designated by the Palestine Liberation Organization;

Further calls for the implementation of development projects in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the projects mentioned in its resolution 39/223 of 18 December 1984;

Condemns the occupying Power, Israel, for its brutal economic and social policies and practices against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory;

Requests United Nations bodies not to extend any form of assistance to the occupying Power, Israel;

Stresses that aid is not and cannot be a substitute for a genuine and just solution to the question of Palestine;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution.

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