United Nations Security Council Resolution 1515

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{{Infobox UN resolution

|number = 1515

|organ = SC

|date = 19 November

|year = 2003

|meeting = 4,862

|code = S/RES/1515

|document = https://undocs.org/S/RES/1515(2003)

|for = 15

|abstention = 0

|against = 0

|subject = The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question

|result = Adopted

|image = Occupied Palestinian Territories.jpg

|caption = Israel, Gaza and West Bank

}}

United Nations Security Council resolution 1515, adopted unanimously on 19 November 2003, after recalling all previous resolutions on the situation in the Middle East, particularly resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1397 (2002) and the Madrid Principles, the Council endorsed the Road map for peace proposed by the Middle East Quartet in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.{{cite news|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sc7924.doc.htm|title=Security Council adopts resolution endorsing road map leading towards two-state resolution of Israeli–Palestinian conflict|date=19 November 2003|publisher=United Nations}} The resolution, proposed by Russia, envisaged a Palestinian state by 2005 in return for security guarantees for Israel.{{cite news|last=Leopold|first=Evelyn|title= UN Council votes to endorse Mideast 'road map' |url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19355560.htm|date=19 November 2003|agency=Reuters}}

The Security Council expressed concern at the continuing violence in the Middle East, reiterating its demand for an end to hostilities and all acts of terrorism, provocation, incitement and destruction.{{cite journal|last=Korobkin|first=Russell|last2=Zasloff|first2=Jonathan |title=Roadblocks to the Road Map: A Negotiation Theory Perspective on the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict After Yasser Arafat|journal=Yale Journal of International Law|year=2005|volume=30}} It envisaged a solution whereby Israel and Palestine exist side by side within recognised borders and solutions to the Israeli–Lebanese and Israeli–Syrian situations.{{cite book|last=Summers|first=James|title=Peoples and international law: how nationalism and self-determination shape a contemporary law of nations|year=2007|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-15491-9|page=261}}

Welcoming international diplomatic efforts, the resolution called on all parties to fulfil their obligations under the Road map working in co-operation with the Quartet in order to achieve a two-state solution.