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United Nations S/2010/204 Security Council Distr.: General 23 April 2010 Original: English Letter dated 19 April 2010 from the Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 11 April 2010 addressed to you from Mr. Amre Moussa, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, regarding the resolutions, Sert Declaration and the document issued by the Arab Summit held in Sert, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on 27-28 March 2010. Pursuant to article 54 of the Charter of the United Nations, I should be grateful if you would arrange for the present letter and its annex to be circulated as a document of the Security Council. (Signed) Yahya Mahamassani Ambassador 10-46641X (E) 230410 240910 *1046641* S/2010/204 Annex to the letter dated 19 April 2010 from the Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council [Original: Arabic] I should like to express my sincere appreciation for your participation in the proceedings of the 22nd ordinary session of the Council of the League of Arab States at summit level, held at Sert, the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on 27-28 March 2010. It is my pleasure to enclose a hard copy and disc copy of the volume containing the resolutions and statements adopted by the summit. As you know, the summit adopted a number of important resolutions dealing with key Arab positions vis-à-vis various regional and international developments, particularly in relation to the Palestinian issue and the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as a number of other important resolutions in the political, economic and social spheres. I should like to draw particular attention to the fact that the summit resolved to put the settlement issue and the unlawful Israeli measures in East Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories before the General Assembly of the United Nations and to prepare for submission thereof to the International Court of Justice, the Human Rights Council and the meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions. Additionally, the summit resolved to put before the Executive Board of UNESCO the matter of the Israeli decision to add unlawfully the Tomb of Abraham in Hebron and Mosque of Bilal ibn Rabah in Bethlehem to the list of Israeli archaeological sites. Regarding the situation in Jerusalem, the summit called upon States and international and regional organisations, chief among them the United Nations and the Quartet, to continue not to recognise or have dealings with any projects or measures targeting the land and the Muslim and Christian holy places in East Jerusalem, considering these to be unlawful measures which disregard the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. The summit charged the Arab group in New York with calling for a special session of the General Assembly to be convened to halt the Israeli measures in Jerusalem, which violate international law and obstruct implementation of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, and to work for the adoption of a General Assembly resolution calling upon the International Court of Justice to look into halting the Israeli measures in occupied East Jerusalem. The summit called for a United Nations fact-finding mission to be set up in the light of the theft by Israeli international gangs of the organs of many Palestinians in the occupied territories and to provide Arab and international support to national committees formed to investigate these crimes. I should like to draw attention to the resolution adopted by the summit concerning the negative repercussions of the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber 1 of the International Criminal Court regarding President Umar al-Bashir of the Republic of the Sudan and the impact thereof on the efforts to bring about peace, particularly the Agreement of Goodwill and Confidence signed at Doha (17 February 2009) and other peace agreements. The summit called upon the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities in bringing about peace and stability in the Sudan and to support 2 10-46641 S/2010/204 the efforts of regional and international organisations to achieve a political settlement between the various Sudanese parties concerned with the Darfur crisis. The summit further welcomed the other framework agreements signed at Doha between the government of the Sudan and several of the armed Darfurian movements within the context of the Arab-African initiative. The resolution commended the efforts of the governments of the Sudan and Chad to normalise their fraternal relations. The summit urged the continuation of Arab efforts to address the humanitarian situation in Darfur. Regarding the situation in Somalia, the summit supported the African Union call for the deployment of United Nations forces to replace the African forces in Somalia at the earliest opportunity and called upon the United Nations to take the necessary steps and measures to ensure the speedy deployment of these forces. The summit called upon the United Nations to convene a conference aimed at establishing, seriously and within a defined timeframe, a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East, in implementation of the relevant United Nations resolutions, including those of the General Assembly of the United Nations entitled, “Establishment of a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East”. The summit called upon the International Atomic Energy Agency to prepare the necessary reference documents on the basis of its experience in making preparations for such nuclear weapon-free zones elsewhere in the world. The summit adopted a resolution on ways of combating international terrorism, in which it condemned the crime of the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the United Arab Emirates on 19 January 2010 as representing a violation of UAE sovereignty and security, and supported all the investigations being carried out by the UAE to uncover the facts of the crime. The resolution called upon all States, particularly the United Kingdom and the European Union, to treat terrorist groups and supporters of terrorism seriously, to deport them and not to grant them political asylum or allow them to exploit the climate of freedom to undermine the security and stability of Arab States. The summit adopted a resolution welcoming the submission of the Secretary- General of the League of Arab States on the Arab neighbourhood policy and requesting him to prepare a working paper on the proposed principles and appropriate mechanisms of the Arab neighbourhood policy with respect to the States neighbouring the Arab region in Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean basin, in preparation for submission to the extraordinary summit scheduled for October 2010 at the latest. I take this opportunity to affirm my desire to continue to consult and coordinate with you on various matters of joint interest and to express my utmost appreciation for your presiding over the proceedings of the 64th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Please accept the assurances of my highest consideration, (Signed) Amre Moussa Secretary-General 10-46641 3 S/2010/204 Contents Subject Resolution Page Political Issues .......................................................... 7 1. Reports to the Summit........................................................... 7 • Report of the Presidency on the activity of the Follow-up Committee for the Implementation of Resolutions and Commitments......................... 485 7 • Report of the Secretary General on Joint Arab Action...................... 496 7 2. Development of the system of Joint Arab Action............................. 497 8 3. The Yemeni initiative to energise Joint Arab Action .......................... 498 9 4. The initiative of the Syrian Arab Republic to formulate a mechanism for managing inter-Arab disputes................................................... 499 9 5. The Arab neighbourhood policy.......................................... 500 11 6. The establishment of the permanent Arab parliament.......................... 501 11 7. The Palestinian issue and developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict................... 17 • The Arab Peace Initiative ............................................ 502 17 • The formulation of an Arab action plan to save Jerusalem................... 503 19 • Developments in the Palestinian issue.................................. 504 21 • Support for the budget of the Palestinian National Authority and steadfastness of the Palestinian people............................................... 505 26 • The occupied Syrian Arab Golan...................................... 506 26 • Solidarity with and support for Lebanon................................. 507 29 • Support for Syria, Palestine and Lebanon................................ 508 32 8. Developments in the situation in Iraq...................................... 509 32 9. The Iranian occupation of the Arabian Gulf islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, belonging to the United Arab Emirates ............................ 510 36 10. Addressing the losses and measures resulting from the dispute over the Lockerbie affair....................................................... 511 38 11. Rejection of the unilateral United States’ sanctions on the Syrian Arab Republi ...... 512 38 12. The unjust embargo imposed on Syria and the Sudan by the United States with regard to the purchase or leasing of aircraft and spare parts and resulting