New York-Sana
Today, the United Nations General Assembly renewed the adoption of a resolution affirming the permanent sovereignty of the Syrians in the occupied Syrian Golan and the sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories over their natural resources.
Last night, the Second Committee on Economic Issues of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the annual resolution entitled Permanent Sovereignty of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the Syrians in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources with a majority of 157 countries, opposing the Israeli occupation entity and six countries, while 14 countries abstained from vote.
The resolution reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Syrians in the occupied Syrian Golan and the Palestinian people over their natural resources, including land, water and energy resources.
In its resolution, the United Nations General Assembly calls on the Israeli occupation authorities to stop exploiting, destroying, depleting, or endangering natural resources in the occupied Golan and the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem.
The General Assembly also calls on the occupation authorities to stop all actions harmful to the environment, including those carried out by Israeli settlers, including the dumping of waste of all kinds in the occupied Syrian Golan and in the occupied Palestinian territory, which constitutes a grave danger to the natural resources of the population, particularly the water and land resources and threatens the environment and the health of civilians and their facilities.
It should be noted that the same resolution was adopted last year by 153 votes, while the Israeli occupation entity and five countries opposed it, while 16 countries abstained.
