waldron@newport.rutgers.edu (James Waldron) (10/12/89)
*UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 1 Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989 UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932 The General Assembly meets this afternoon to consider a draft resolution on the question of Palestine and continue its general debate. The draft resolution (document A/44/L.2) would have the Assembly condemn "Israel's persistent policies and practices violating the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem", and in particular such acts as the firing upon civilians by the Israeli army, the deportation of civilians, the demolition of houses, and collective punishment and detention. The Assembly would demand that Israel abide scrupulously by the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and call upon the parties to the Convention to ensure that Israel respected it. The Assembly would also request the Security Council to urgently consider the situation in the occupied territories and measures to provide international protection to the Palestinian civilians. It would further request that the Secretary-General send a special representative to the territories and submit periodic reports on the situation, the first such report to be submitted no later than 15 November 1989. The draft resolution is sponsored by: Algeria, Bahrain, Colombia, Democratic Yemen, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Yugoslavia. --- Patt Haring | United Nations | Did u read patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information | misc.headlines.unitex patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange | today? -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-