Assistance to the Palestinian People

A/RES/60/126View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 73d Assistance to the Palestinian people, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

46 versions · 1979–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/141

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/141	Assistance to the Palestinian people	2,319	98%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/121	Assistance to the Palestinian people	2,303	98%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/30	Assistance to the Palestinian people	2,279	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/126	Assistance to the Palestinian people	2,260	99%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/126	Assistance to the Palestinian people	2,247	99%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

22 reports · 2001–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/86 E/2025/71	Assistance to the Palestinian people report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/141
2024	A/79/85 E/2024/60	Assistance to the Palestinian people report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/121
2023	A/78/86 E/2023/83	Assistance to the Palestinian people report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/30
2022	A/77/93 E/2022/67	Assistance to the Palestinian people report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/126
2021	A/76/78 E/2021/71	Assistance to the Palestinian people report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/126

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

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Also takes note of the report of the Personal Humanitarian Envoy of the Secretary-General on the humanitarian conditions and needs of the Palestinian people;⁷

⁷Available from http://domino.un.org/bertini_rpt.htm.

Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his rapid response and efforts regarding assistance to the Palestinian people;

Also expresses its appreciation to the Member States, United Nations bodies and intergovernmental, regional and non-governmental organizations that have provided and continue to provide assistance to the Palestinian people;

Stresses the importance of the work of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority and of the steps taken under the auspices of the Secretary-General to ensure the achievement of a coordinated mechanism for United Nations activities throughout the occupied territories;

Urges Member States, international financial institutions of the United Nations system, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and regional and interregional organizations to extend, as rapidly and as generously as possible, economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people, in close cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization and through official Palestinian institutions;

Calls upon relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations system to intensify their assistance in response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian people in accordance with Palestinian priorities set forth by the Palestinian Authority;

Calls upon the international community to provide urgently needed assistance and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian children and their families and to help in the reconstruction of relevant Palestinian institutions;

Urges Member States to open their markets to exports of Palestinian products on the most favourable terms, consistent with appropriate trading rules, and to implement fully existing trade and cooperation agreements;

Calls upon the international donor community to expedite the delivery of pledged assistance to the Palestinian people to meet their urgent needs;

Stresses, in this context, the importance of ensuring the free passage of aid to the Palestinian people and the free movement of persons and goods;

Welcomes the recent agreement on movement and access between the two sides and the subsequent opening of the Rafah border on 25 November 2005, and stresses the need to ensure that the commitments made in the agreement are fully implemented in accordance with the timeline set out in the agreement;

Stresses the need for all concerned parties to work together for the speedy resolution of all outstanding issues relating to disengagement, and welcomes in this regard the work of the Quartet Special Envoy for Disengagement;

Urges the international donor community, United Nations agencies and organizations and non-governmental organizations to extend as rapidly as possible emergency economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people to counter the impact of the current crisis;

Stresses the need to implement the Paris Protocol on Economic Relations of 29 April 1994, fifth annex to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington, D.C., on 28 September 1995,⁸ in particular with regard to the full and prompt clearance of Palestinian indirect tax revenues, and welcomes the progress made in this regard;

⁸A/51/889-S/1997/357, annex.

Suggests the convening in 2006 of a United Nations-sponsored seminar on assistance to the Palestinian people;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the present resolution, containing:

An assessment of the assistance actually received by the Palestinian people;

An assessment of the needs still unmet and specific proposals for responding effectively to them;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian people”.

Assistance to the Palestinian People

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