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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,
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