28 July 1988

40th plenary meeting

Israeli economic practices in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling General Assembly decision 40/432 of 17 December 1985, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare a report on the financial and trade practices of the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories,

Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1987/87 of 8 July 1987 and General Assembly decision 42/449 of 17 December 1987,

1. Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General concerning progress in the implementation of General Assembly decision 40/432 and Economic and Social Council resolution 1987/87;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to speed up the preparation of the required report on the trade practices of the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied Palestinian territories and on the financial and trade practices of the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan and to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the present resolution;

3. Also requests the Secretary-General to use the terminology decided upon in the relevant General Assembly resolutions.