Assistance to the Palestinian people.

Requests the World Food Programme to provide food assistance to the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory; requests the international community, the UN system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to sustain and increase their assistance to the Palestinian people, in close co-operation with the PLO; calls for the treatment on a transit basis of Palestinian exports and imports passing through neighbouring ports and points of exit and entry; calls for the granting of trade concessions and concrete preferential measures for Palestinian exports on the basis of Palestinian certificates of origin; calls for the immediate lifting of Israeli restrictions and obstacles hindering the implementation of assistance projects by the UNDP, other UN bodies and others providing economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory; calls for facilitating the establishment of Palestinian development banks in the occupied Palestinian territory, with a view to promoting investment, production, employment and income therein.

Adopted 52-1-0, 36th meeting

Adopted at the 36th plenary meeting, 26 July 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1990, Geneva, 4-27 July 1990. - E/1990/INF/8. - 15 Aug. 1990. - p. 17-18. - Issued in ESCOR, 1990, Suppl. no. 1 and 1A.