Summary
The Security Council’s resolution of 19 November 2003, adopted at its 4862nd meeting, which recalls resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 1397 (2002) and the Madrid principles, reiterates the demand for an immediate cessation of all acts of violence including terrorism, provocation, incitement and destruction, reaffirms its vision of two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side within secure and recognized borders, emphasizes a comprehensive, just and lasting peace including the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Lebanese tracks, endorses the Quartet Performance-based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (S/2003/529), and calls on the parties to fulfil their obligations under the Roadmap in cooperation with the Quartet (Resolution 1515 (2003) endorsing the Quartet Roadmap (19 November 2003), PDF p.1).
What the file is
United Nations document S/RES/1515 (2003), Distr.: General, 19 November 2003, 1 PDF page, about 214 words in the text copy. The text copy splits the barcode number “0362185” across lines; the resolution’s wording is otherwise clean and matches the original. No vote count is given in the file.
Section by section
- Preamble (PDF p.1). Recalling all previous relevant resolutions, in particular 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1397 (2002) and the Madrid principles; grave concern at the continuation of the tragic and violent events in the Middle East; reiterating the demand for an immediate cessation of all acts of violence, including all acts of terrorism, provocation, incitement and destruction; reaffirming the two-State vision; emphasizing the need to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, including the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Lebanese tracks; welcoming and encouraging the diplomatic efforts of the international Quartet and others.
- Operative paragraph 1 (PDF p.1). Endorses the Quartet Performance-based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (S/2003/529).
- Operative paragraph 2 (PDF p.1). Calls on the parties to fulfil their obligations under the Roadmap in cooperation with the Quartet and to achieve the vision of two States living side by side in peace and security.
- Operative paragraph 3 (PDF p.1). Decides to remain seized of the matter.
Key passages
- “Endorses the Quartet Performance-based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (S/2003/529)” (operative paragraph 1, PDF p.1)
- “Calls on the parties to fulfil their obligations under the Roadmap in cooperation with the Quartet and to achieve the vision of two States living side by side in peace and security” (operative paragraph 2, PDF p.1)
Evidence the work relies on
A Security Council resolution, not an evidentiary work. Its stated bases are resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 1397 (2002) and the Madrid principles, which it recalls, and the Roadmap document S/2003/529, which paragraph 1 endorses by symbol without reproducing it.
Analysis
Resolution 1515 does one new thing: it converts the Roadmap from a Quartet text presented to the parties on 30 April 2003 and transmitted to the Council on 7 May 2003 into a Council-endorsed instrument, and adds a Council call on the parties to fulfil their Roadmap obligations in cooperation with the Quartet. Everything else in the text is restatement — the 1397 cessation demand is reiterated in the preamble with “terrorism” for 1397’s “terror”, and the 1397 vision is reaffirmed with its wording unchanged. The endorsement is by document symbol only; no Roadmap phase, date or obligation is quoted, and no monitoring, reporting or enforcement step is added beyond remaining seized of the matter.
People, organizations, places and events
UN Security Council Resolution 1515, UN Security Council, Quartet, Quartet Roadmap, UN Security Council Resolution 1397, UN Security Council Resolution 242, UN Security Council Resolution 338, Madrid Conference
Concepts
How it relates to other sources
This is the primary text for Resolution 1515, not previously held as a source in the wiki. It endorses A Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Quartet, transmitted 7 May 2003) six and a half months after that text was presented to the parties, and it is the third link in the chain this batch documents: Resolution 1397 (2002) (12 March 2002) affirmed the vision and called for implementation of the Tenet and Mitchell instruments, the Quartet built the Roadmap on 1397 among its stated foundations, and 1515 reaffirms 1397’s vision and demand while endorsing the Roadmap. Its recall of the Madrid principles connects it to Madrid Conference, which the Roadmap’s preamble likewise names among its foundations.
Open questions
- No vote count is given in the file, so the resolution’s adoption margin cannot be stated from it.
- The “Madrid principles” recalled in the preamble are not defined or cited to a document in the file.
- The Roadmap is endorsed by symbol (S/2003/529) only; whether the endorsement covers the annex alone or Annan’s covering letter as well is not addressed in the file.
Coverage
PDF p.1 of 1, read in full.