Sixty-second session


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Item 34 of the provisional agenda*
Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other
Arabs of the Occupied Territories



		The occupied Syrian Golan


		Report of the Secretary-General


1.	The present report is submitted in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 61/120 of 14 December 2006, the operative part of which reads as follows:
		“The General Assembly,
		“...
		“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 sixty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution.”
2.	On 14 May 2007, the Secretary-General addressed a note verbale to the Government of Israel, in which he requested, in view of his reporting responsibilities under the above-mentioned resolution, that the Government inform him of any steps it had taken, or envisaged taking concerning the implementation of the relevant provisions of the resolution.
3.	No reply had been received at the time of the preparation of the present report.









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A/62/331
 
 General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 September 2007

Original: English


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