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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

Brian McGarry
Brian McGarry*
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Brian McGarry is a Lecturer at the Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), a joint program of the University of Geneva Law School and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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International Legal Materials , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , June 2017 , pp. 645 - 649
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Copyright © 2017 by The American Society of International Law 

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References

ENDNOTES

1 See, e.g., UN Charter arts. 2, 33.

2 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ Rep. 136 (July 9).

3 UN Security Council, Letter dated 7 May 2003 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council, UN Doc S/2003/529 (May 7, 2003), Annex (“A performance-based road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”).

4 UN General Assembly, Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Eightieth Session, UN Doc A/67/18, p. 20, at ¶ 24 (Mar. 9, 2012).

5 See Alan Baker, The Dangers of UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016), Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (Dec. 26, 2016), at http://jcpa.org/dangers-un-security-council-resolution-2334-2016/.

6 Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government, Israel-PLO, art. 1, Sept. 13, 1993, 32 ILM 1525 (1993). On the Oslo Accords’ endorsement of Resolution 242, see further Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Understanding the Settlements Debate, 111 AJIL Unbound 36, 37 (2017), at https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.19.

7 See further Andreas Zimmermann, Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) and Its Legal Repercussions Revisited, EJIL: Talk! (Jan. 20, 2017), at https://www.ejiltalk.org/security-council-resolution-2334-2016-and-its-legal-repercussions-revisited/.

8 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israel-PLO, art. XXXI(5), Sept. 28, 1995, 36 ILM 557 (1995).

9 See UN Charter arts. 37(2), 38 (providing for substantive recommendations if seized through the parties’ joint reference); cf. UN Charter arts. 33(2), 36(1) (generally alluding to procedural recommendations).

10 See UN Charter arts. 24, 25. See further Dan Joyner, Legal Bindingness of Security Council Resolutions Generally, and Resolution 2334 on the Israeli Settlements in Particular, EJIL: Talk! (Jan. 9, 2017), at https://www.ejiltalk.org/legal-bindingness-of-security-council-resolutions-generally-and-resolution-2334-on-the-israeli-settlements-in-particular/.

11 Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo, Advisory Opinion, 2010 ICJ Rep. 403 (July 22), ¶ 85.

12 Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) Notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion, 1971 ICJ Rep. 16 (June 21), ¶ 114.

13 See id. ¶ 108.

14 GA Res. 67/19 (Dec. 4, 2012).

15 GA Res. 2625 (XXV) (Oct. 24, 1970).

16 See further Omar M. Dajani, Israel's Creeping Annexation, 111 AJIL Unbound 51, 56, at https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.21 (calling for more guidance on this third-party duty).

17 Supra note 2, at ¶ 159.

18 GA Res. 56/83 (I), Annex, art. 41(2) (Dec. 12, 2001). See further Tom Moerenhout, The Consequence of the UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements for the EU: Stop Trade with Settlements, EJIL: Talk! (Apr. 4, 2017), at https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-consequence-of-the-un-settlements-resolution-for-the-eu-stop-trade-with-settlements/.

19 See International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor, Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2016 (Nov. 14, 2016), 25.

20 United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Israeli Practices Towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, UN Doc. E/ESCWA/ECRI/2017/1 (Mar. 15, 2017).

21 See Fourth Geneva Convention art. 49, ¶ 6. See further Yaël Ronen, Taking the Settlements to the ICC? Substantive Issues, 111 AJIL Unbound 57, 58–59, at https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.16 (calling for a restrictive approach to this analysis).