The General Assembly resumes its emergency special session on Palestine

The President of the General Assembly decided to resume this tenth emergency special session at the request of the Chairs of the Arab Group, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Group and the Non-Aligned Movement Coordination Office. The session will be held at three o’clock in the afternoon today, Wednesday, December 4, and at ten o’clock in the morning next Wednesday, December 11.

You can follow Live broadcast of today’s meeting, with simultaneous translation into Arabic, at the link.

The tenth emergency special session was held for the first time in 1997 at the request of the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations, after a series of sessions of the Security Council and the General Assembly to consider the construction of the Harhoma settlement in Jabal Abu Ghneim, south of occupied East Jerusalem.

The General Assembly adopts 3 resolutions on the Middle East

Within the framework of its seventy-ninth session, the United Nations General Assembly – which includes 193 members – adopted three resolutions yesterday, two of them on the Palestinian issue and the third on the Syrian Golan.

Resolution on settling the Palestine issue by peaceful meansIt was adopted with the support of 157 members, 8 opposed, and 7 abstentions. In the resolution, the General Assembly reiterated its call for the establishment of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East without delay on the basis of relevant United Nations resolutions and for an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967, including the occupation of East Jerusalem.

It reaffirmed its firm support in accordance with international law for the solution based on the existence of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security within recognized borders based on the pre-1967 borders.

I depend Another decision regarding the Palestine Rights Division in the General Secretariat Of the United Nations, 101 members supported it, 27 opposed it, and 42 abstained from voting.

The decision on the Syrian Golan It received the support of 97 members, 8 opposed, and 64 abstentions.

In the resolution, the General Assembly once again decided that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling block to achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region. It asked Israel to resume talks on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks and to respect the commitments and pledges reached in previous talks. It once again demanded Israel’s withdrawal from all of the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of June 4, 1967, in implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions.