A/HRC/16/2 5. Calls upon States that have not provided for a long period of time substantive replies concerning claims of enforced disappearances in their countries to do so, and to give due consideration to relevant recommendations concerning this issue made by the Working Group in its reports; 6. Encourages the Working Group, in accordance with its working methods, to continue to provide concerned States with relevant and detailed information concerning allegations of enforced disappearances in order to facilitate a prompt and substantive response to these communications without prejudice to the need for concerned States to cooperate with the Working Group; 7. Notes with concern that, according to the Working Group, it has insufficient resources to effectively exercise its mandate, particularly in relation to human resources, where there is an acute need,25 and requests the Secretary-General to provide the assistance necessary to the Working Group to fulfil its mandate, in particular by putting adequate human and material resources at its disposal; 8. Decides to continue consideration of the question of enforced disappearances in accordance with the programme of work of the Human Rights Council. 46th meeting 24 March 2011 [Adopted without a vote.] 16/17 Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan The Human Rights Council, Deeply concerned at the suffering of the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan due to the systematic and continuous violation of their fundamental and human rights by Israel since the Israeli military occupation of 1967, Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981, Recalling also all relevant General Assembly resolutions, the most recent being resolution 65/106 of 10 December 2010, in which the Assembly declared that Israel had failed to comply with Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and demanded that Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan, Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision by Israel of 14 December 1981 to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has resulted in the effective annexation of that territory, Reaffirming the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, Taking note with deep concern of the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (A/65/237) of 27 August 2010 and, in this connection, deploring the Israeli settlement in the occupied Arab territories and expressing regret at the constant refusal of Israel to cooperate with and to receive the Special Committee, 25 GE.11-17059 A/HRC/16/48, para. 585. 41

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