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UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 10 Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989 UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932 The Acting PRESIDENT suspended the Assembly for five minutes at 5:16 p.m. When the Assembly resumed at 5:40 p.m., the President, JOSEPH N. GARBA (Nigeria), announced that, because of a technical malfunction, issuance of the revised draft resolution on the question of Palestine had been delayed. The PRESIDENT then suspended the Assembly for 20 minutes at 5:41 p.m. The Assembly resumed at 6:15 p.m. The Assembly then took up the revised draft resolution (document A/44/L.2/Rev.1) concerning the question of Palestine. ALI TREIKI (Libya) introduced the revised draft resolution. He said that two years had elapsed since the beginning of the intifadah. Women and children had been massacred and their only crime was to aspire to liberty. The resolution called for an end to the bloodshed and deserved full support. It was not a provocation, but called for by the circumstances. "The Palestinians had held out an olive branch and been met by machines of death", he said. JOHANAN BEIN (Israel) said that 10 days ago, as the Foreign Minister of Israel addressed the General Assembly, the representatives of every Arab State, with the exception of Egypt, demonstrated a "collective show of belligerent contempt" and left the Hall. Had they remained, they would have heard Foreign Minister Arens call on the 20 Arab States still in a state of war with Israel to meet with him and discuss how they could move from belligerency to peace. The following day, on 28 September, the Israeli mission telephoned the Permanent Missions of the 20 Arab States in an attempt to co-ordinate the meetings and initiate dialogue called for. Not one of them reciprocated. At the same time that a minority of Middle Eastern nations was engaged in diplomacy, he said, the overwhelming majority of Arab States, had other ideas. While they were implicated in the creation and perpetuation of the conflict, they ignored, and worse, obstructed the fragile diplomatic process. But at international forums, he then said, Arab nations rushed headlong into political warfare. "The timing of this ritualistic draft resolution is significant and speaks for itself", he went on. It was an exercise in public relations designed to nip the peace process in the bud, and to implant the idea that while a new climate of global co-operation existed, it was irrelevant as far as the Arab conflict with Israel was concerned. * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501) --- 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. -=-