(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night adopted six draft resolutions by recorded vote on the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East overall.
The Assembly_ by a recorded vote of 144 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau and the United States), with 10 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Togo, Tonga and Vanuatu) _reiterated its determination that all administrative and legislative measures taken by Israel to alter the legal status of the Holy City of Jerusalem were null and void.
The Assembly also adopted a text that stressed the need for Israel, the occupying Power, to withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territory, reiterated its demand for the complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activity and demanded that Israel comply with its obligations under international law.
The text, among other things, also called for the full implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions and bolstered efforts to reach a final peace settlement, as well as urged Member States to expedite economic, humanitarian and technical aid to the Palestinian people and Government in order to alleviate the serious humanitarian situation there and to rehabilitate the Palestinian economy and infrastructure.
Other drafts related to the Organization's various bodies concerned with the question of Palestine, with the Assembly requesting, among other things, that the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People continue to work with all actors to promote the realization of those rights; the Secretariat's Division for Palestinian Rights monitor relevant developments and organize international meetings and conferences on the subject as well as the Department of Public Information's Special Information Programme on the Question of Palestine continue to provide assistance to and training for Palestinian journalists.
Another text supported by 99 delegations, rejected by 6 (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, and the United States), with 57 abstaining declared the Assembly's concern over Israel's failure to implement Assembly resolution 497 (1981), as well as the need to implement the 1907 Hague Convention and the Fourth Geneva Convention with respect to the occupied Syrian Golan. It called upon Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, noting that peace would not be achieved without Israel's serious commitment to that withdrawal.
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