Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Operations of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Welcomes the completion of the transfer of the Headquarters of the Agency to Gaza and the signing of the Headquarters Agreement between the Agency and the Palestinian Authority; calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to accept the de jure applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 Aug. 1949, and to abide scrupulously by its provisions; also calls upon Israel to abide by Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of UN and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of UN with regard to the safety of the personnel of the Agency and the protection of its institutions and the safeguarding of the security of the facilities of the Agency in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem; calls once again upon the Government of Israel to compensate the Agency for damages to its property and facilities resulting from actions by the Israeli side; requests the Commissioner-General to proceed with the issuance of identification cards for Palestine refugees and their descendants in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Adopted 158-2-3, 69th meeting

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Adopted at the 69th plenary meeting, 10 Dec. 1997.