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SUBJECT: UNGA ADOPTS ALL FOURTH COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS; FOUR 
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¶1. SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted 22 
resolutions and four draft decisions included in the reports 
of the UNGA Fourth Committee (Special Political and 
Decolonization Committee) on December 6.  Resolutions and 
plenary votes are in paragraph two (most passed with 
significant margins).  The UNGA also adopted three 
plenary-generated resolutions by consensus under the 
following Agenda items: The Culture of Peace; Cooperation 
Between the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of 
Chemical Weapons; and Cooperation Between the UN and the 
Organization of the Islamic Conference.  During its November 
26 session, the General Assembly adopted by consensus a 
Second Committee (Economic and Financial) resolution on 
"Protection of the Global Climate for Present and Future 
Generations of Mankind."  END SUMMARY. 
 
UNGA ADOPTS FOURTH COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS 
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¶2. The UN General Assembly adopted 22 draft resolutions and 
four draft decisions during its December 6 consideration of 
the UNGA Fourth Committee reports on agenda items 27 to 37, 
110 and 119.  It also took note of Fourth Committee reports 
on the "Comprehensive review of the whole question of 
peacekeeping operations in all their aspects," under Agenda 
item 31 and "Program planning," under Agenda item 119.  This 
concluded UNGA's consideration of all Fourth Committee 
actions.  Among the 22 adopted resolutions originating in the 
Fourth Committee, delegates approved 14 by vote and eight by 
consensus.  Additionally, delegates adopted four draft 
decisions by consensus.  The resolutions and voting results 
were: 
 
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY VOTE: 
 
Agenda item 29: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for 
Palestine Refugees in the Near East: 
-- Resolution 63/91, "Assistance to Palestine Refugees" 
173-1(Israel)-6(U.S., Palau, Nauru, Micronesia, Marshall 
Islands and Cameroon). 
-- Resolution 63/92, "Persons Displaced as a Result of the 
June 1967 and Subsequent Hostilities" 172-6(U.S., Israel, 
Palau, Nauru, Micronesia and Marshall Islands)-2(Canada, 
Cameroon). 
-- Resolution 63/93, "Operations of the United Nations Relief 
and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East" 
172-6(U.S., Israel, Palau, Nauru, Micronesia and Marshall 
Islands)-1(Cameroon) 
-- Resolution 63/94, "Palestine Refugees' Properties and 
Their Revenues" 173-6(U.S., Israel, Palau, Nauru, Micronesia 
and Marshall Islands)-2(Cameroon, Vanuatu). 
 
Agenda 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: 
-- Resolution 63/95, "Work of the Special Committee to 
Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of 
the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied 
Territories" 94-8(U.S., Canada, Australia, Israel, Palau, 
Nauru, Micronesia and Marshall Islands)-73. 
-- Resolution 63/96, "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" 173-6(U.S., Israel, Palau, Nauru, 
Micronesia and Marshall Islands)-1(Cameroon). 
-- Resolution 63/97, "Israeli Settlements in the Occupied 
Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and the 
Occupied Syrian Golan" 171-6(U.S., Israel, Palau, Nauru, 
Micronesia and Marshall Islands)-2(Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire). 
-- Resolution 63/98, "Israeli Practices Affecting the Human 
Rights of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian 
Territory, Including East Jerusalem" 165-8(U.S., Australia, 
Canada, Israel, Palau, Nauru, Micronesia and Marshall 
Islands)-4(Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, El Salvador, Honduras). 
-- Resolution 63/99, "The Occupied Syrian Golan" 
171-1(Israel)-7(U.S., Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Marshall 
Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau). 
 
Agenda item 33: 
-- Resolution 63/101, "Information from Non-Self-Governing 
Territories Transmitted under Article 73e of the Charter of 
the United Nations," 177-0-4(U.S., United Kingdom, Israel, 
France). 
 
Agenda item 34: 
-- Resolution 63/102, "Economic and Other Activities which 
Affect the Interests of the Peoples of the Non-Self-Governing 
Territories," 179-2(U.S., Israel)-2(United Kingdom, France). 
 
Agenda item 35: 
 
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-- Resolution 63/103, "Implementation of the Declaration on 
the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and 
Peoples by the Specialized Agencies and the International 
Institutions Associated with the United Nations," 
125-0-55(U.S.). 
 
Agenda item 37: Implementation of the Declaration on the 
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: 
-- Resolution 63/109, "Dissemination of Information on 
Decolonization" 177-3(U.S., United Kingdom, Israel)-2(France, 
Madagascar). 
-- Resolution 63/110, "Implementation of the Declaration on 
the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and 
Peoples" 177-3(U.S., United Kingdom, Israel)-1(France). 
 
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE: 
 
Agenda item 27: 
-- "Effects of Atomic Radiation." 
 
Agenda item 28: 
-- "International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer 
Space." 
 
Agenda item 32: 
-- "Questions Relating to Information, Part A on Information 
on the Service of Humanity, and Part B on United Nations 
Public Information Policies and Activities." 
 
Agenda item 36: 
-- "Offers by Members States of Study and Training Facilities 
for Inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories." 
 
Agenda item 37: Implementation of the Declaration on the 
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: 
-- "Question of Western Sahara." 
-- "Question of New Caledonia." 
-- "Question of Tokelau." 
-- "Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the 
British Virgin Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint 
Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States 
Virgin Islands." 
 
DRAFT DECISIONS ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE: 
 
-- "Increase in the Membership of the Committee on 
Information," under Agenda item 32. 
-- Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of 
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: "Question of 
Gibraltar," under Agenda item 37. 
-- Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of 
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: "Increase in 
the membership of the Special Committee on the Situation with 
regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the 
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples," 
under Agenda item 37. 
-- "Proposed program of work and timetables of the Special 
Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) for 
the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly," under 
Agenda item 110. 
 
¶3. In the only intervention during voting, the Iranian 
delegation delivered a statement following consideration of 
Agenda item 30 on "The Special Committee to Investigate 
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the 
Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied 
Territories."  Iran noted its continued, unwavering support 
for the Palestinian people and their "inalienable rights," 
while sympathizing with their "suffering under the Israeli 
occupation."  The Iranian Delegate concluded by stressing 
that durable peace can only be achieved through the "end of 
Israeli occupation" and the establishment of a democratic 
Palestinian state. 
 
THREE OTHER RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY CONSENSUS 
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¶4. The General Assembly adopted by consensus draft resolution 
A/63/L.23 entitled, "International Decade for a Culture of 
Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World, 
2001-2010," under Agenda item 45.  It also adopted by 
consensus draft resolutions A/63/L.46 entitled, "Cooperation 
Between the United Nations and the Organization for the 
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons" (which the United States 
co-sponsored) and A/63/L.44 entitled, "Cooperation Between 
the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic 
Conference," both submitted under Agenda item 114. 
 
AT NOV 26 SESSION, UNGA ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE 
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¶5. During its November 26 session, the General Assembly 
 
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adopted by consensus a Second Committee resolution entitled, 
"Protection of the global climate for present and future 
generations of mankind."  The resolution stressed the 
seriousness of climate change and urged countries to work 
towards achieving the goals of the United Nations Framework 
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  The General Assembly 
took action on this resolution separate from its 
consideration of other Second Committee reports in order to 
approve it before the December 1-12 Conference of Parties to 
the UNFCCC in Poznan, Poland. 
Khahilzad