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The Occupied Syrian Golan

A/RES/78/77View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 50Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1997–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/82
  • 2025A/RES/80/82The occupied Syrian GolanLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024A/RES/79/90The occupied Syrian GolanCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/77The occupied Syrian GolanCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/125The occupied Syrian GolanCompare with previous version
  • 2021A/RES/76/81The occupied Syrian GolanCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Golan HeightsIsraelMiddle East SituationSettlement PolicySyrian Arab RepublicTerritories Occupied by Israel

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2024.

  • 2024A/79/337The occupied Syrian Golan report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions on the occupied Syrian Golan, in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council, inter alia, decided that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect and demanded that Israel, the occupying Power, rescind forthwith its decision;
2
Also calls upon Israel to desist from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan and in particular to desist from the establishment of settlements;
3
Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, that purport to alter the character and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and have no legal effect;
4
Calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, and from its repressive measures against the population of the occupied Syrian Golan;
5
Deplores the violations by Israel of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949;
6
Calls once again upon Member States not to recognize any of the legislative or administrative measures and actions referred to above;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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