UNGA Adopts Resolution on ‘Right of the Palestinian People to Self Determination’

UNGA Adopts Resolution on ‘Right of the Palestinian People to Self Determination’ .(NCRI).

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly adopted Friday a resolution on "Right of the Palestinian People to Self Determination.”

The resolution was adopted with 180 votes in favor, seven against and four abstentions. Israel, the US, Canada and four islands: Nauru, Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands voted against the resolution.

“The 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 was adopted by an overwhelming majority of votes in the UNGA sixty-ninth session,” Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported on Saturday.

“Through that resolution, the Assembly demanded that Israel cease exploiting, damaging, depleting and endangering the natural resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the occupied Syrian Golan. It also called for immediate and safe removal of all unexploded ordnance in the Gaza Strip, and for support for the efforts of the United Nations Mine Action Service in that regard.”

The General Assembly adopted without a vote another resolution titled Assistance to the Palestinian People.

According to the UN press release, the resolution was introduced by representatives of Italy, Sebastiano Cardi, on behalf of the European Union (EU).

“The resolution text urged Member States, international financial institutions of the United Nations system, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and regional and interregional organizations to extend economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people, in cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and through official Palestinian institutions,” the report said.