A/HRC/19/2
6.
Further calls upon Israel, in this connection, to allow delegates of the
International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Syrian prisoners of conscience and
detainees in Israeli prisons accompanied by specialized physicians to assess the state of
their physical and mental health and to protect their lives;
7.
Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken
or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, including the Knesset’s decision of 22
November 2010 to hold a referendum before any withdrawal from the occupied Syrian
Golan and East Jerusalem, that seek to alter the character and legal status of the occupied
Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and of
the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12
August 1949, and have no legal effect;
8.
Again calls upon States Members of the United Nations not to recognize any
of the above-mentioned legislative or administrative measures;
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
Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session;
10.
Decides to continue the consideration of the human rights violations in the
occupied Syrian Golan at its twenty-second session.
53rd meeting
22 March 2012
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 33 to 1, with 13 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Congo,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait,
Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico,
Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay
Against:
United States of America
Abstaining:
Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy,
Norway, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Spain, Switzerland]
19/15
Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in
particular the provisions of Articles 1 and 55 thereof, which affirm the right of peoples to
self-determination, and reaffirming the need for the scrupulous respect of the principle of
refraining in international relations from the threat or use of force, as specified in the
Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and
Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, adopted
by the General Assembly in its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970,
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