General
Assembly Resolution 42/210 (B) 42/210.
Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country B The
General Assembly, Guided
by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and its relevant
provisions, Guided
also by the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America
regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, of 26 June 1947, 1/ Taking
note of the report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country, 2/ Having
been apprised
of the action being considered in the host country, the United States of America, which
might impede the maintenance of facilities of the Permanent Observer Mission of the
Palestine Liberation Organization to the United Nations in New York, which enables it to
discharge its official "The
members of the Palestine Liberation Organization Observer Mission are, by virtue of
resolution 3237 (XXIX), invitees to the United Nations. As such, they are covered by
sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Headquarters Agreement of 26 June 1947. There is therefore a
treaty obligation on the host country to permit Palestine Liberation Organization Observer
Mission personnel to enter and remain in the United States to carry out their official
functions at United Nations Headquarters.", 1.
Reiterates that the Permanent Observer Mission of the Palestine Liberation
Organization to the United Nations in New York is covered by the provisions of the
Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the
Headquarters of the United Nations and should be enabled to establish and maintain
premises and adequate functional facilities, and that the personnel of the Mission should
be enabled to enter and remain in the United States to carry out their official functions; 2.
Requests the host country to abide by its treaty obligations under the Headquarters
Agreement and in this connection to refrain from taking any action that would prevent the
discharge of the official functions of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Palestine
Liberation Organization to the United Nations; 2/
Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-second Session, Supplement No.
26 (A/42/26 and Corr.1). RECORDED
VOTE ON RESOLUTION 42/210 B: 145-1-0 (Negative vote was Israel. The United States
announced that it was not participating in the vote.) |