United Nations Resolutions
Reference Index


SECURITY COUNCIL
  • Resolution 242
    (22 November 1967)
    RE: "...the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security...."
  • Resolution 338
    (22 October 1973)
    "Decides that, immediately and concurrently with the cease-fire, negotiations shall start between the parties concerned under appropriate auspices aimed at establishing a just and durable peace in the Middle East."
  • Resolution 425
    (19 March 1978)
    "Calls upon Israel immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese territorial integrity and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese territory...."
  • Resolution 446
    (22 March 1979)
    "Calls once more upon Israel...to rescind its previous measures and to desist from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the occupied Arab territories...."
  • Resolution 465
    (1 March 1980)
    "Determines that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity...."
  • Resolution 497
    (17 December 1981)
    "Decides that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and without international legal effect...."
  • Resolution 672
    (12 October 1990)
    "Expresses alarm at the violence which took place on 8 October at the Al Haram al Shareef and other Holy Places of Jerusalem resulting in over twenty Palestinian deaths and to the injury of more than one hundred and fifty people...."
  • Resolution 799
    (18 December 1992)
    "Strongly condemns the action taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to deport hundreds of Palestinian civilians...."
  • Resolution 904
    (18 March 1994)
    "Shocked by the appalling massacre committed against Palestinian worshippers in the Mosque of Ibrahim in Hebron on 25 February 1994, during the holy month of Ramadan...."
  • Resolution 1073
    (28 September 1996)
    RE: "...the action by the Government of Israel to open an entrance to a tunnel in the vicinity of Al Aqsa Mosque and its consequent results...."
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  • Resolution 181 (II)
    (29 November 1947)
    "Plan of Partition with Economic Union"
  • Resolution 194 (III)
    (11 December 1948)
    "Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible..."
  • Resolution 207 - 52nd Session
    (18 December 1997)
    "Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources."
  • Resolution 56 - 53rd Session
    (3 December 1998)
    "Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem"
  • Resolution ES - 10/6
    (9 February 1999)
    "Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory"

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