The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 43/176 of 15 December 1988 was a resolution in which the General Assembly called for the convening of an International Peace Conference on the Middle East, under the auspices of the United Nations. The resolution is titled "43/176. Question of Palestine".[1] The peace conference was proposed in the framework of international politics.
The international community supported the International Peace Conference, with only Israel and the United States opposing it. Israel and US insisted on bilateral negotiations instead.
The resolution affirms principles for the achievement of comprehensive peace: withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and from the other occupied Arab territories; security of all States in the region, including those named in resolution 181, within secure and internationally recognized boundaries; execution of Resolution 194; dismantling of the Israeli settlements; and free access to Holy Places.
In the same meeting Resolution 43/177 was adopted, in which the proclamation of the State of Palestine was acknowledged and the occupied Palestinian territories were called territories over which the Palestinian people should exercise sovereignty. The resolutions 43/176 and 43/177 were broadly supported by NGO's all over the world.[2]
- ^ UNGA Resolution "43/176. Question of Palestine" Archived 21 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine. 15 December 1988 (doc.nr. A/RES/43/176). The number of the draft is A/43/L.53.
- ^ General Assembly, Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Archived 4 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Annexes II-VII. 17 November 1989. (doc.nr. A/44/35)