A/HRC/25/37 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 22/17, adopted on 21 March 2013, in which the Council called upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council recalled in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Security Council decided, inter alia, that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect and demanded that Israel rescind forthwith its decision. 2. The Human Rights Council also requested the Secretary-General to bring resolution 22/17 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 thereon to the Council at its twenty-fifth session. II. Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 22/17 3. On 30 September 2013, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on behalf of the Secretary-General, addressed a note verbale to the Government of Israel referring to Human Rights Council resolution 22/17, requesting information on any steps taken or envisaged to be taken concerning the implementation of the said resolution. No reply was received. 4. On the same day, OHCHR, on behalf of the Secretary-General, addressed a note verbale to all permanent missions in Geneva to draw their attention to resolution 22/17 and to request the Governments of member States to provide information on any steps taken or envisaged to be taken concerning the implementation of the relevant provisions of the resolution. The Permanent Missions of the Syrian Arab Republic, of Ireland and of Cuba responded by means of notes verbales to that request. 5. In addition, OHCHR, on behalf of the Secretary-General, brought resolution 22/17 to the attention of the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations, pursuant to the request of the Council set out in the resolution. The Permanent Delegation of the European Union responded by means of a note verbale. 6. In its note verbale dated 30 October 2013, the Syrian Arab Republic referred to the occupation of the Syrian Golan in 1967, resulting in the displacement of more than 500,000 Syrians from their homes to other parts of the Syrian territory and the destruction of their villages and farms. According to the Syrian Arab Republic, for more than four decades, Israel, the occupying Power, has tried to uproot the remaining Syrian population of the occupied Golan through systematic violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949). Furthermore, the Syrian Arab Republic referred to the illegal decision taken by Israel in 1981 to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan and to a series of United Nations resolutions calling upon all Member States to reject any legislative and administrative measures taken by Israel, the occupying Power, based on the above-mentioned decision. The Syrian Arab Republic further mentioned that Israel continued to disparage all these resolutions and to reject their international legitimacy. 7. In its response, the Syrian Arab Republic referred to the architectural and demographic changes, land confiscation, and encouragement of thousands of Israeli settlers 2