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UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 4
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
ABDULLAH BIN KHALIFA AL-ATTIYAH, Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Qatar, said that the Palestinian question was the most important
of the challenges which continued to confront the international
community. Currently, there were two important developments:
the Palestinian people's uprising in the occupied territories
and the proclamation of an independent Palestinian state.
The intifadah was a liberation movement against Zionist
occupation, he continued. A people were defending their dignity
and struggle for their right to self determination and to a
national state and accepting every sacrifice. On the other side
of the conflict was the ugly face of opressive Israeli reaction,
which consisted of the murder of children, women and the elderly,
deportation, incarceration and torture. He saluted the "blessed
intifadah of the Palestinian people" and reaffirmed his
continued support for it. Further proof of the Palestinian
desire to achieve a just and comprehensive solution was the
courageous initiative taken by the Palestinian National Council,
he said. Despite world-wide appreciation for that initiative
and despite the recognition of the Palestinian state by a
majority of the countries of the world, Israel obstinately
refused to offer any good faith initiative in its pursuit of
expansion. In that, it was encouraged by the political and
military support from certain quarters.
The dialogue between the United States and the PLO was a
positive development, but it was not an aim in itself. The
dialogue must result in a clear and explicit position
recognizing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people,
including their right to self-determination. He then said that
the end of hostilities between Iran and Iraq was received by his
country with great satisfaction. That war had wasted the human
and material resources of two neighbouring countries and
hindered development in the region. But that satisfaction would
not be complete until full understanding was reached by the
parties, with a formal end to the state of war. With regard to
the situation in Lebanon, he commended the efforts of the Arab
Tripartite Committee and called upon the parties to continue
co-operating with it as it was the only available means to
extract Lebanon from the vicious circle of infighting. He
condemned the continued Israeli occupation of south Lebanon and
the Syrian Golan Heights.
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