Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Calls for the convening of the International Peace Conference on the Middle East, under the auspices of the UN, with the participation of all parties to the conflict, including the PLO, on an equal footing, and the 5 permanent members of the Security Council, based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) and the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people, primarily the right to self-determination; affirms the following principles for the achievement of comprehensive peace: (a) the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and from the other occupied Arab territories; (b) guaranteeing arrangements for security of all States in the region, including those named in resolution 181 (II), within secure and internationally recognized boundaries; (c) resolving the problem of the Palestine refugees in conformity with General Assembly resolution 194 (III), and subsequent relevant resolutions; (d) dismantling the Israeli settlements in the territories occupied since 1967; (e) guaranteeing freedom of access to Holy Places, religious buildings and sites; requests the Security Council to consider measures needed to convene the International Peace Conference on the Middle East, including the establishment of a preparatory committee, and to consider guarantees for security measures agreed upon by the Conference for all States in the region.

Adopted 138-2-2, 82nd meeting

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Adopted at the 82nd plenary meeting, 15 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 62. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).