Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 31 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

29 versions · 1997–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/77

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/77	Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East	5,989	23%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/73	Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East	4,835	100%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/122	Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East	4,831	97%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/78	Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East	4,719	93%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/94	Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East	4,802	94%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2011–2017

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2017	A/71/849	Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/71/93
2011	A/65/705	Report of the Secretary-General on strengthening the management capacity of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East		A/RES/64/89

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the effective functioning of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East remains essential in all fields of operation;

Expresses its appreciation to the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as well as to all of the staff of the Agency, for their tireless efforts and valuable work, particularly in the light of the difficult conditions and dangerous circumstances faced during the past year, and, on the occasion of her impending retirement, expresses its appreciation to Commissioner-General Karen Koning AbuZayd for her nine years of dedicated service to the Palestine refugees;

Expresses special commendation to the Agency on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of its establishment;

Expresses its appreciation to the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and requests it to continue its efforts and to keep the General Assembly informed of its activities;

Takes note with appreciation of the two reports of the Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East¹⁰ and the efforts of the Working Group to assist in ensuring the financial security of the Agency, and requests the Secretary-General to provide the necessary services and assistance to the Working Group for the conduct of its work;

¹⁰A/64/115 and A/64/519.

Commends the Agency’s six-year Medium-Term Strategy, commencing in January 2010, and the continuing efforts of the Commissioner-General to increase the budgetary transparency and efficiency of the Agency, as reflected in the Agency’s programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011¹¹ and its comprehensive, three-year organizational development plan;

¹¹Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 13A (A/64/13/Add.1).

Requests the Secretary-General to support the institutional strengthening of the Agency through the provision of sufficient financial resources from the regular budget of the United Nations;

Endorses the conclusions in the report of the extraordinary meeting of the Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,¹² in particular its request that the Secretary-General provide a report on the strengthening of the management capacity of the Agency to the relevant bodies of the General Assembly at the earliest possible date;

¹²A/64/115.

Also endorses the efforts of the Commissioner-General to continue to provide humanitarian assistance, as far as practicable, on an emergency basis, and as a temporary measure, to persons in the area who are internally displaced and in serious need of continued assistance as a result of recent crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Lebanon;

Welcomes the pledges made at the International Donor Conference for the Recovery and Reconstruction of the Nahr el-Bared Palestine Refugee Camp and Conflict-affected Areas of Northern Lebanon, held in Vienna on 23 June 2008, and urges all parties to expedite the reconstruction of the camp to alleviate the ongoing suffering of the displaced persons;

Acknowledges the important support provided by the host Governments to the Agency in the discharge of its duties;

Encourages the Agency, in close cooperation with other relevant United Nations entities, to continue making progress in addressing the needs and rights of children and women in its operations in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child¹³ and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,¹⁴ respectively;

¹³United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.

¹⁴Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.

Expresses concern about the relocation of the international staff of the Agency from its headquarters in Gaza City and the disruption of operations at the headquarters due to the deterioration and instability of the situation on the ground;

Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply fully with the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949;5

Also calls upon Israel to abide by Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations3 in order to ensure the safety of the personnel of the Agency, the protection of its institutions and the safeguarding of the security of its facilities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;

Urges the Government of Israel to speedily compensate the Agency for damage and destruction to its property and facilities resulting from actions by the Israeli side, including as a result of the military operations in the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, and to expeditiously reimburse the Agency for all transit charges incurred and other financial losses sustained as a result of delays and restrictions on movement and access imposed by Israel;

Calls upon Israel particularly to cease obstructing the movement and access of the staff, vehicles and supplies of the Agency and to cease the levying of extra fees and charges, which affect the Agency’s operations detrimentally;

Also calls upon Israel to cease its obstruction of the import of necessary construction materials and supplies for the reconstruction and repair of damaged or destroyed Agency facilities and for the implementation of suspended civilian infrastructure projects in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip;

Requests the Commissioner-General to proceed with the issuance of identification cards for Palestine refugees and their descendants in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;

Notes with appreciation the progress made by the Agency in the modernization of its archives through the Palestine Refugee Records Project, and encourages the Commissioner-General to finalize the project as rapidly as possible and to report on the progress made to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session;

Notes the success of the Agency’s microfinance and microenterprise programmes, and calls upon the Agency, in close cooperation with the relevant agencies, to continue to contribute to the development of the economic and social stability of the Palestine refugees in all fields of operation;

Reiterates its appeals to all States, specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations to continue and to augment the special allocations for grants and scholarships for higher education to Palestine refugees in addition to their contributions to the regular budget of the Agency and to contribute to the establishment of vocational training centres for Palestine refugees, and requests the Agency to act as the recipient and trustee for the special allocations for grants and scholarships;

Urges all States, specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations to continue and to increase their contributions to the Agency so as to ease the ongoing financial constraints, especially with respect to the Agency’s regular budget deficit, noting that financial shortfalls have been exacerbated by the current humanitarian situation on the ground that has resulted in rising expenditures, in particular with regard to emergency services, and to support the Agency’s valuable and necessary work in assisting the Palestine refugees in all fields of operation.

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