A/HRC/16/25 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 13/5 of 24 March 2010. In this resolution, 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, in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council decided, inter alia, that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan is null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel rescind forthwith its decision. The Human Rights Council also requested the Secretary-General to bring resolution 13/5 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 Council at its sixteenth session. 2. On 3 August 2010, the Office of the 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 13/5, requesting information on any steps taken or envisaged to be taken concerning the implementation of the relevant provisions of that resolution. No reply has been received at the time of the preparation of the present report. 3. Also on 3 August, OHCHR, on behalf of the Secretary-General, addressed a note verbale to all permanent missions drawing their attention to the same resolution and asking the Governments of Member States to provide information on any steps they had taken or envisaged taking concerning the implementation of the relevant provisions of Council resolution 13/5. 4. In a note verbale dated 30 August 2010 addressed to OHCHR, the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Office in Geneva strongly condemned Israel’s continued refusal to withdraw from the occupied Golan Heights and to comply with the relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, particularly Council resolution 497 (1981). 5. The Syrian Arab Republic further condemns the decisions of the Government of Israel to intensify the building of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights, particularly the decision of the Golan Regional Council to build new tourist destinations in the occupied Golan with the aim of drawing more persons to Golan. Syria denounces the efforts of the Israeli tourism agencies to draw more settlers to Golan, in particular under the guise of attracting tourists in the Batihah area in the southern part of the occupied Golan Heights, and especially to Tall al-Sayyadin on the Eastern shore of Lake Tiberias. Syria also condemns the development of infrastructure and expansion of settlements by the occupation forces in the settlements of Eliad, Ein Zivan, Natur, Khasfin, Hadnes and Nof. Syria believes that such Israeli actions attest to Israel’s rejection of peace and its disregard for Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, the most recent of which, General Assembly resolution 63/97 of 5 December 2008, again called for a complete halt to Israeli settlement activities. 6. In its response, the Syrian Arab Republic condemns Israel’s exporting of products from the occupied Syrian Golan and stresses that such conduct constitutes a flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and General Assembly resolution 63/201 entitled “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources”. Syria calls on United Nations Member States to reject such products and to put pressure on the Government of Israel to comply with its obligations in that regard under international law. 2