The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People adopted yesterday a text of recommendations calling for the implementation of General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on the rights of “all Palestinians to return to their homes, lands and property,” and the creation of a Palestinian state.
The text provided for a two-phase implementation of Palestinian rights. The first calls for the return to their homes of the Palestinians displaced as a result of the Six-Day War. The second phase, which deals with Palestinians displaced between 1948 and 1967, deals with ways to help them return. The text also said that Palestinians choosing not to return to their homes should be “paid just and equitable compensation.” The committee has no powers to enforce the recommendations.
The text was adopted by consensus, without a vote, by the 20-nation committee. Israel declared last December, when the committee was set up by the General Assembly, that it would not cooperate with the committee in any way. The committee’s membership is comprised mainly of Arab and Third World nations. Neither the United States nor any European country is a member.
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