unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (10/12/89)
UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 13
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
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desire to continue the occupation. Israel owed its existence to
the United Nations and now it rejected its resolutions.
Israel and the United States tried to divert the efforts of the
international community to achieve peace, he said. The United
States had avoided the fundamental problem. Thus the idea
presented was that elections should take place while the
occupation persisted. How could such elections be free and
fair? he asked. Israel and the United States had refused to
recognized the PLO, while in fact, they must negotiate with it.
"The intifadah continues", he said, "in spite of the murder of
hundreds, the wounded, the martyrs." He was in favour of a just
peace. He could not accept plots so that the occupying Power
could continue its domination. The Palestinian people would
continue the struggle until the occupation was ended, and they
appreciated the manifestation of solidarity with their just
struggle.
The PRESIDENT then called on those who asked to speak in exercise
of their right of reply.
CLOVIS MAKSOUD, Observer for the League of Arab States, said that
points introduced by the Israeli delegation were not germane to
the resolution. The Arab States were in a state of belligerency
with Israel, and "surreptitious acts" by the Israeli mission
were merely "gimmicks" designed to demonstrate that Israel
"called the shots" in the peace process.
Israel remained an occupying Power, he said, and as long as the
Palestinian people could not form their own state, a state of
belligerency would continue between Israel and the Arab States.
The Arab group challenged the credentials of Israel, he said,
because the request for this accreditation came from Jerusalem,
which was occupied by Israel in violation of many United Nations
resolutions.
He then called elections in the occupied territories an effort
to "municipalize" the rights of the Palestinian people to
nationhood. The Israeli delegate's poetry, he said, should be
relegated to the jingles of Zionist propaganda.
The PRESIDENT adjourned the meeting at 7:20 p.m.
(END OF TAKE 13; ANNEX FOLLOWS)
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