Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2003  [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee  (Fourth Committee) (A/58/473 and Corr.1)]  58/100. The occupied Syrian Golan        The General Assembly,    Having considered the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli  Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of  the Occupied Territories,1    Deeply concerned that the Syrian Golan, occupied since 1967, has been under  continued Israeli military occupation,    Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,    Recalling also its previous relevant resolutions, the last of which was  resolution 57/128 of 11 December 2002,    Having considered the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance  of resolution 57/128,2    Recalling its previous relevant resolutions in which, inter alia, it called upon  Israel to put an end to its occupation of the Arab territories,    Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision of 14 December 1981  taken by Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied  Syrian Golan, which has resulted in the effective annexation of that territory,    Reaffirming that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible under  international law, including the Charter of the United Nations,    Reaffirming also the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the  Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,3 to the occupied  Syrian Golan,    Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967,  _______________  1 A/58/311.  2 A/58/264.  3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.   A/RES/58/100  2    Welcoming the convening at Madrid of the Peace Conference on the Middle  East on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967  and 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 aimed at the realization of a just, comprehensive  and lasting peace, and expressing grave concern about the stalling of the peace  process on all tracks,    1.  Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant  resolutions on the occupied Syrian Golan, in particular Security Council resolution  497 (1981), in which the Council, inter alia, decided that the Israeli decision to  impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was  null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel, the  occupying Power, rescind forthwith its decision;    2.  Also calls upon Israel to desist from changing the physical character,  demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied  Syrian Golan and in particular to desist from the establishment of settlements;    3.  Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions  taken or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, that purport to alter the  character and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute  a flagrant violation of international law and of the Geneva Convention relative to  the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,3 and have no  legal effect;    4.  Calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli  identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan and from its  repressive measures against the population of the occupied Syrian Golan;    5.  Deplores the violations by Israel of the Geneva Convention relative to  the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949;    6.  Calls once again upon Member States not to recognize any of the  legislative or administrative measures and actions referred to above;    7.  Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its  fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.