Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the OPT, Golan - GA Second Cttee debate, introduction of draft resolution - Press release (excerpts) (3 November 2009)

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Department of Public Information (DPI)	3 November 2009

	General Assembly GA/EF/3257

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-fourth General Assembly
Second Committee
29^th & 30^th Meetings (AM & PM)

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Background

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) met today to conclude its general discussion on sustainable development and take up its agenda item on implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).

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Introduction of Draft Resolutions

The representative of Egypt then introduced a draft resolution on 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 (document A/C.2/64/L.12).