A/RES/73/256 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 75 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2018 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.69 and A/73/L.69/Add.1)] 73/256. Assistance to the Palestinian people The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 72/134 of 11 December 2017, as well as its previous resolutions on the question, Recalling also the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, by the Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, 1 and the subsequent implementation agreements concluded by the two sides, Recalling further all relevant international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, and, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Right s, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 3 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 Gravely concerned at the difficult living conditions and humanitarian situation affecting the Palestinian people, in particular women and children, throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the Gaza Strip where economic recovery and vast infrastructure repair, rehabilitation and development are urgently needed, especially in the aftermath of the conflict of July and August 2014, Conscious of the urgent need for improvement in the economic and social infrastructure of the occupied territory, Welcoming, in this context, the development of projects, notably on infrastructure, to revive the Palestinian economy and improve the living conditions __________________ 1 2 3 4 18-22637 (E) A/48/486-S/26560, annex. See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. 250119 *1822637*

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