Sixtieth session Second Committee Agenda item 52 (g) Sustainable development: implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa * On behalf of the Group of Arab States. Mauritania:* amendment to draft resolution A/C.2/60/L.34 International Year of Deserts and Desertification, 2006 Add a new preambular paragraph after the third preambular paragraph, reading Deeply concerned also at the extensive destruction by Israel, the occupying Power, of agricultural land and orchards in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the uprooting of a vast number of fruit-bearing trees,   \* MERGEFORMAT 1 \* MERGEFORMAT 1 United Nations A/C.2/60/L.74 General Assembly Distr.: Limited 15 December 2005 Original: English 05-64738 (E) 151205 *0564738* A/C.2/60/L.74 A/C.2/60/L.74