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Article: "In an age of information, the United Nations should appear as a transparent institution.'.(General Assembly 53)
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- UN Chronicle
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- March 22, 1999
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The General Assembly on 3 December welcomed the signing on 23 October 1998 of the Wye River Memorandum between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority. As it adopted a resolution on the subject-1 of 24 texts recommended by its Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), the Assembly said it viewed the Israeli settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace, and again demanded that Israel cease all settlement activity in the occupied territory. It also denounced illegal Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs in the occupied territories.
The Assembly reaffirmed the applicability of the 1949 ...