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UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 001047 
 
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TAGS: PREL PHUM PREF KPAL KWBG UNGA IS
SUBJECT: FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES NINE RESOLUTIONS ON 
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SITUATION 
 
¶1. SUMMARY: The UNGA Fourth Committee (Special Political and 
Decolonization) approved nine resolutions on the 
Israeli-Palestinian situation on November 7: four under 
agenda item 29 "The United Nations Relief and Works Agency 
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East" (UNRWA) and five 
under agenda item 30 "Work of the Special Committee to 
Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of 
the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied 
Territories."  Most passed with substantial margins.  END 
SUMMARY. 
 
¶2. The resolutions considered and associated vote totals are 
as follows: 
 
Item 29: "United Nations Relief and Works Agency for 
Palestine Refugees in the Near East." 
 
¶1. L.11 "Assistance to Palestine Refugees." 
 
158 "Yes," 1 "No" (Israel), 6 "Abstain" (United States, 
Cameroon, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, and Micronesia). 
 
¶2. L.12 "Persons Displaced as a Result of the June 1967 and 
Subsequent Hostilities." 
 
158 "Yes," 6 "No" (United States, Israel, Nauru, Marshall 
Islands, Micronesia, and Palau), 2 "Abstain" (Cameroon, 
Canada). 
 
¶3. L.13 "Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works 
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East." 
 
160 "Yes," 6 "No" (United States, Israel, Marshall Islands, 
Nauru, Micronesia, and Palau), 1 "Abstain" (Cameroon). 
 
¶4. L.14 "Palestine Refugees' Properties and their Revenues." 
 
161 "Yes," 6 "No" (United States, Israel, Marshall Islands, 
Micronesia, Palau, and Nauru), 1 "Abstain" (Cameroon). 
 
Item 30: "Report of the Special Committee to Investigate 
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the 
Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied 
Territories." 
 
¶1. L.15 "Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli 
Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian 
People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories." 
 
87 "Yes," 8 "No" (United States, Canada, Australia, Israel, 
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau), 70 "Abstain." 
 
¶2. L.16 "Applicability of the Geneva Convention Relative to 
the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 
August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including 
East Jerusalem, and the other Occupied Arab Territories." 
 
161 "Yes," 6 "No" (United States, Israel, Nauru, Marshall 
Islands, Micronesia, and Palau), 2 "Abstain" (Cote D'Ivoire, 
Cameroon). 
 
¶3. L.17 "Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian 
Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Syrian 
Golan." 
 
161 "Yes," 6 "No" (United States, Israel, Nauru, Marshall 
Islands, Micronesia, and Palau), 2 "Abstain" (Cote D'Ivoire, 
Cameroon). 
 
¶4. L.18 "Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the 
Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 
including East Jerusalem." 
 
155 "Yes," 8 "No" (United States, Canada, Australia, Israel, 
Nauru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau), 5 "Abstain" 
(Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon, Mongolia, El Salvador, and 
Honduras). 
 
¶5. L.19 "The Occupied Syrian Golan." 
 
160 "Yes," 1 "No" (Israel), 7 "Abstain" (United States, 
Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, 
and Palau). 
Khalilzad