A/HRC/37/40 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 34/27, adopted on 24 March 2017, 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 Council recalled in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which it was decided that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect. The Security Council demanded that Israel rescind forthwith its decision. 2. In its resolution 34/27, the Human Rights Council requested the Secretary-General to bring the 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 the matter to the Council at its thirty-seventh session. The Council also decided that it would continue the consideration of the human rights violations in the occupied Syrian Golan at its thirty-seventh session. II. Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 34/27 3. On 5 December 2017, 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 34/27 and requesting information on any steps taken or envisaged concerning the implementation of the resolution. OHCHR did not receive a reply to the note verbale. 4. On the same day, OHCHR, on behalf of the Secretary-General, also addressed a note verbale to all permanent missions in Geneva to draw their attention to Human Rights Council resolution 34/27 and to request the Governments of Member States to provide information on any steps taken or envisaged concerning the implementation of the relevant provisions of the resolution. The Permanent Missions of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Russian Federation, Cuba and Iraq responded to that request by notes verbales. 5. Furthermore, on behalf of the Secretary-General and pursuant to the request of the Human Rights Council, OHCHR addressed a note verbale to the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations to bring to their attention Council resolution 34/27. OHCHR did not receive any replies thereto. 6. On 18 December 2017, the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic addressed a note verbale to OHCHR, in which it stressed that, for the past 50 years in the occupied Syrian Golan, Israel, the occupying Power, has been violating international law, Security Council resolutions as well as provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention. It renewed its call to the United Nations and to all Member States to pressure Israel to put an end to its occupation of the Syrian Golan and not to recognize any situation resulting from violations of international law by Israel, as the occupying Power. It also called on all Member States to refrain from providing any support to Israel, particularly in relation to current settlements or the establishment of new settlements, which could be used by Israel to reinforce its occupation of the Syrian Golan and perpetuate its violations of human rights of the Syrian residents there. 7. In its note verbale, the Syrian Arab Republic referred to the Secretary-General’s report on the economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan (A/72/90-E/2017/71). The Syrian Arab Republic noted that the relevant paragraphs on the occupied Syrian Golan highlighted Israeli violations of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Syrian residents, in particular with regard to the Israeli decision to impose its laws, 2