A/HRC/10/29
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention
of all Governments, the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies,
international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian
organizations, to disseminate it as widely as possible and to report on this matter to the
Council at its thirteenth session;
10.
Decides to continue the consideration of the human rights violations in the
occupied Syrian Golan at its thirteenth session.
43rd meeting
26 March 2009
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 33 to 1, with 13 abstentions (see part II, chap. VII). The
voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil,
Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, India,
Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, Zambia;
Against:
Canada;
Abstaining:
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.]
10/18
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and affirming the
inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
Reaffirming that all States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights
and fundamental freedoms, as stated in the Charter and as elaborated in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other
applicable instruments,
Recalling relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Council, the
Security Council and the General Assembly, reaffirming, inter alia, the illegality of the
Israeli settlements in the occupied territories,
Mindful that Israel is a party to the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, which is applicable de
jure to Palestinian and all Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including East
Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan, and recalling the declaration adopted by the Conference
of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, held in Geneva on 5
December 2001,
Considering that the transfer by the occupying Power of parts of its own civilian
population into the territory it occupies constitutes a breach of the Fourth Geneva
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