unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (10/12/89)
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.
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