Security Council
S/RES/446 (1979)
22 March 1979
Resolution 446 (1979)
of 22 March 1979
The Security Council,
Having heard the statement of the Permanent Representative
of Jordan and other statements made before the Council,
Stressing the urgent need to achieve a comprehensive, just
and lasting peace in the Middle East,
Affirming once more that the Fourth Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12
August 1949 1/ is applicable to the Arab territories
occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem,
1. Determines that the policy and practices of Israel in
establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab
territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and
constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just
and lasting peace in the Middle East;
2. Strongly deplores the failure of Israel to abide by
Security Council resolutions 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967, 252 (1968)
of 21 May 1968 and 298 (1971) of 25 September 1971 and the
consensus statement by the President of the Security Council on 11
November 1976 2/ and General Assembly resolutions 2253
(ES-V) and 2254 (ES-V) of 4 and 14 July 1967, 32/5 of 28 October
1977 and 33/113 of 18 December 1978;
3. Calls once more upon Israel, as the occupying Power, to
abide scrupulously by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, to rescind
its previous measures and to desist from taking any action which
would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature
and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab
territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in
particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population
into the occupied Arab territories;
4. Establishes a Commission consisting of three members of
the Security Council, to be appointed by the President of the
Council after consultations with the members of the Council, to
examine the situation relating to settlements in the Arab
territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem;
5. Requests the Commission to submit its report to the
Security Council by 1 July 1979;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission
with the necessary facilities to enable it to carry out its
mission.
7. Decides to keep the situation in the occupied territories
under constant and close scrutiny and to reconvene in July 1979 to
review the situation in the light of the findings of the
Commission.
Adopted at the 2134th meeting by 12 votes to none, with 3
abstentions (Norway, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, United States of America).
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1/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p.
287.
2/ Official Records of the Security Council, Thirty-first
Year, 1969th meeting.
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