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.
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