A/HRC/43/69 commercial and tourism activities. Such support would further entrench occupation and encourage existing and future Israeli settlements. 29. The Syrian Arab Republic called upon the international community and international organizations to monitor and document blatant violations of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, by Israel and to express their firm condemnation of such violations. It also urged the international community to compel Israel to stop its illegal settlement activities and its oppressive practices against the Syrian Arab inhabitants of the occupied Syrian Golan and to end its occupation. 30. On 2 December 2019, the Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva addressed a note verbale to OHCHR, in which it rejected the principle of acquiring land by force. It also referred to all the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council affirming the Syrian character of the Golan Heights and condemning the illegal Israeli occupation of the Golan. 31. Iraq stressed its own national stance and that of other groups to which it belonged (the League of Arab States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the non-aligned States) in rejecting the latest recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan. Such a recognition constituted a stark violation of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council. 32. Iraq emphasized that all the measures that had been implemented by Israel in terms of imposing its jurisdiction and laws on occupied territories, including the Syrian Golan, were illegal. It categorically rejected the results of the local council elections that Israel had held in the occupied Syrian Golan and stressed the need to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in that regard. 33. Iraq also rejected the expansion of Israeli settlements and associated investment projects in the Syrian Golan, as well as Israeli attempts to stifle economic development for the Syrian Arab population. 34. Iraq expressed concern about the findings contained in the report of the SecretaryGeneral on human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fortieth session (A/HRC/40/41), which details the extent of the suffering of the Syrian civilian population in the occupied Syrian Golan. It requested the United Nations to exercise its role in ending that suffering. 7