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  1. “Thirdly, the resolution commends the efforts of neighbouring States and other Arab States in providing for the urgent needs of refugees and calls for support to help those States shoulder the burden of hosting refugees in terms of housing and other assistance, particularly in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, in accordance with the relief plans put forth by their respective Governments. Fourthly, the resolution calls for an international conference at the United Nations for the reconstruction of Syria and the rehabilitation of infrastructure in all affected sectors as a result of the widespread destruction. In that regard, I also note the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria.”

    2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source

  2. “Moving on to the situation in Syria, the most important development in the context of the Arab League was the adoption of resolution 580 by the Arab summit on 26 March. I will describe some of the resolution's content without getting into too much detail. First, the resolution welcomes the fact that the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces would now be occupying the seat formerly held by the Syrian Arab Republic in the League of Arab States, its bodies, councils and organizations, until the holding of elections leading to the formation of a Government that can assume authority in Syria. Secondly, the resolution emphasizes the importance of efforts to reach a political solution in the Syrian crisis as a priority, and the right of States to their own self-defence.”

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  3. “Of course, the commitment of the Security Council, as the United Nations body responsible for maintaining international peace and security, should be in the forefront of that collective international engagement. Further, on 23 January, the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations stated that the United States is still fully committed to direct negotiations, which lends further significance to the forthcoming visit to Washington , D.C., next week by the Arab ministerial delegation following this week's consultations with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States and visits to a number of European States that have taken place since the Arab summit in March.”

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  4. “In that context, I note the conclusions adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union on 10 December 2012, which emphasized the urgency of renewed, structured and substantial peace efforts in 2013, as well as the report of the Secretary-General of 8 March 2013, which states that "[t]he year 2013 will be decisive in the peace process" (A/67/738, para. 25). The Secretary-General's report also reiterates the five priorities he set forth in that regard in his address to the General Assembly on 22 January 2013, primary among which was the importance of renewing a collective international engagement, which was further emphasized in the Caracas Declaration in Solidarity with the Palestinian People and the State of Palestine of 18 April 2013.”

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  5. “In that context, the Arab summit called upon the international community to launch serious discussions whose terms of reference should be the implementation of United Nations resolutions, in particular relevant Security Council resolutions - primarily resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) - calling for an end to the occupation and an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders, an end to the occupation of the territories of the State of Palestine, and the release of Arab and Palestinian prisoners. The summit also called upon the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities and adopt the necessary mechanisms to achieve those ends.”

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  6. “Israel's intransigent and continued expansion of settlements in the face of the clear international consensus on their illegality and illegitimacy, their violation of the norms and rules of international law and humanitarian law, and the grave harm they do to the peace process and the achievement of the two-State solution also led the Arab summit to hold Israel wholly responsible for the delays in negotiations.”

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  7. “The resolution underscores the fact that the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are a single and indivisible geographic entity, on which, together with all territories occupied since 1967, the independent State of Palestine is to be established, with East Jerusalem as its capital. It also condemns all Israeli efforts to divide the unity of the Palestinian territories, as well as all unilateral measures by Israel. Since the historic adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 67/19 granting observer status at the United Nations to the State of Palestine, the peace process has been in a stalemate as a result of Israeli settlement activities. The stalemate has led regional and international partners to express concern about the threat it poses to the peace process.”

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  8. “It further calls for negotiations to be based on the terms of reference of the peace process, namely, the relevant resolutions of international legitimacy, the Arab Peace Initiative and the principle of land for peace, and within a specific time frame. It urges that the borders be discussed on the basis of an end to the occupation since 1967 and that the final status issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict, in particular the settlement of the questions of Jerusalem, refugees, borders, land, water rights and Israel's full withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories, start to be addressed.”

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  9. “The resolution reaffirms the need to achieve a just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative, General Assembly resolution 194 (III), the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and the condemnation of all forms of settlement, in line with the Arab Peace Initiative adopted by the 2002 Beirut summit and the subsequent summit meetings of the League of Arab States, as well as international law and the relevant terms of reference. The resolution reaffirms that Palestine is a full partner in the peace process. It calls for continued support for Palestine in its just demand that Israel cease all settlement activities.”

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  10. “I will therefore focus my statement on the contents of the decisions of the recent Arab summit and the statement of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States on the question of Palestine and the developing situation in Syria. The summit meeting of the League of Arab States adopted resolution 7595, which reaffirms that a just and comprehensive peace is our strategic option. The resolution underscores the fact that the peace process is a comprehensive and indivisible course of action and that a just and comprehensive peace in the region can be achieved only through a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab and Palestinian territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan, to the lines of 24 June 1967, and the territories still occupied in southern Lebanon.”

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  11. “At the outset, Iwould like to express my gratitude to the Security Council for giving me the floor on behalf of the League of Arab States at the first meeting and briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, since the summit meeting of the League of Arab States held at the end of March. The importance of today's meeting lies in the fact that it represents a further link in the communication and contact between the Security Council and the League of Arab States following the Council meeting attended by the Secretary General of the League of Arab States on 26 September 2012 (see S/PV.6841). That meeting led to the adoption of a presidential statement (S/PRST/2012/20) reaffirming the cooperation between the League of Arab States and the United Nations in the area of international peace and security.”

    2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source