Assistance to the Palestinian People

A/RES/63/140View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65c Assistance to the Palestinian people, published in 2009.

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

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;6

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;

Welcomes, in this regard, the meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for the Coordination of the International Assistance to Palestinians and the significant results of the Paris International Donors’ Conference for the Palestinian State which succeeded in mobilizing the international community and led to the disbursement of 1.36 billion United States dollars in budgetary support as of 22 September 2008;

Stresses the importance of following up on the results of the Paris Conference, including calls upon donors that have not yet converted their budget support pledges into disbursements to transfer funds as soon as possible, encourages all donors to increase their direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority in accordance with its government programme in order to enable it to build a viable and prosperous Palestinian state, underlines the need for equitable burden sharing by donors in this effort, and encourages donors to consider aligning funding cycles with the Palestinian Authority’s national budget cycle;

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 priorities set forth by the Palestinian side;

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

Stresses the role that all funding instruments, including the European Commission’s Palestinian-European Mechanism for the Management of Socio-Economic Aid and the World Bank trust fund, have been playing in directly assisting the Palestinian people;

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 free humanitarian access to the Palestinian people and the free movement of persons and goods;

Also stresses the need for the full implementation by both parties of the Agreement on Movement and Access and of the Agreed Principles for the Rafah Crossing, of 15 November 2005, to allow for the freedom of movement of the Palestinian civilian population, as well as for imports and exports, within and into and out of the Gaza Strip;

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

Stresses the need for the continued implementation of 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 including with regard to the full, prompt and regular transfer of Palestinian indirect tax revenues;

⁸A/51/889-S/1997/357, annex.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth 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-fourth session the sub-item entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian people”.

Assistance to the Palestinian People

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