At the outset, Sir, I should like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I have no doubt that
Israel believes that all sides should dedicate themselves from now on to resuming and accelerating the peace process. This is the only way to change the reality a…
We have made a genuine effort to reach a consensus on draft resolution II, contained in document A/48/715, which addresses such an important issue as assistance to the Palestinian people. We believe that economic and social progress can be advanced only through cooperation, not confrontation.
Howev…
Mr. President, in addressing you and the Assembly, may I also address the former President of Israel, Mr. Yitzhak Navon, who is with us here today in the visitors’ gallery.
After more than 40 years of cold war and polarization the people of the world are striving to build a better future,
This rec…
I am pleased to congratulate you, Sir, on your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I am confident that your wealth of diplomatic experience will be of invaluable assistance in guiding the Assembly’s current session. I should also like to extend my congratulations to the for…
The delegation of Israel joined the consensus on the draft resolution just adopted because we are committed to the establishment of peace with our neighbours. We are encouraged by the recent signing of the Declaration of Principles between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Agreed Common Agenda be…
On behalf of my delegation, I have the honour of addressing the General Assembly on a topic that unites us all: the global fight against drug abuse.
During the last decade, narcotics consumption has become one of the most serious threats against our society, endangering our most valuable national r…
My delegation voted against the draft
resolution just adopted for reasons that have been spelled out repeatedly in
our previous statements on this issue. As those reasons have already been put
on record, we shall not repeat them here. Given the bilateral and
multilateral negotiations currently u…
For years now, reason and per- spective have become precious commodities in the United Nations. Less than a week ago, the General Assembly deliberated-in its usual distorted fashion-the "Ques- tion of Palestine". One would expect that in addressing "The situation in the Middle East", this forum inde…
I assume that the spokesman for the Takritian entity mu.st 'be very delighted that the representative of Iran has come to his support.
179. With regard to the statement that we heard from the spokesman for the Takitrian entity, the real question is not whether Saddam Hussein wishes to be in the com…
I would like to ask the representatives here to do what for some may be a difficult task. I want them for a moment to put aside what all of us hear endlessly in this Hall: the slogans about the "Palestinian people" and their
r~asons. And yet the theme of "homelessness" per- Palestine, both its west…
The draft resolution does not begin to do justice to the issues involved in the matter before us, for it is merely the squalid out- growth of_deliberations based on an item consciously
~Drmulated in a hostile, one-sided and biased manner.
131. . During the course of the thirty-sixth session of the…
I wish to state that, had a vote been taken on the resolution just adopted by consensus, my delegation would have voted against it. We would have done so mainly because of the provi- sions contained in paragraph 3, which reads: "Com- mends the League of Arab States for its efforts and the co-operati…
As I had occasion to point out in the Assembly on 10 December [99th meeting] in explaining Israel's vote on the other resolutions adopted under this agenda item, the purpose of their sponsors. is to sabotage the 'peaceful solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nowhere does this objective emerge more…
I was under the impressiot: that we were at the stage of explanations of vote. The representative of Iraq is apparently making a political statement after the debate has been concluded, and I would appreciate it if you, Mr. President, would kindly remind him of this fact.
Mr. President, I would request that you instruct the representative of Iraq to refer to States Members of the Organization by their official designation.
As we had occasion to reiterate in the course of the debate on the agenda item before us, Israel unequivocally and unreservedly rejects racism and racial discrimination in any form and has made this clear both to the Government of South Africa and to the Assembly. The sponsors of draft resolution A/…
'For the better part of last week, this Assembly was engaged in the first segment of what has become a perennial double-bill debate, entitled "The question of Palestine" and '~The situa- tion in the Middle East". Little, if anything, was said in the first segment to encourage the hope that the cours…
My delegation would like to indicate that had draft resolution A/36iL.8 been put to the vote, Israel would have had to abstain.
48. Let me make myself very clear. The Government of Israel has the greatest respect for the Islamic faith, but it draws a clear line of distinction between the Moslem fai…
The General Assembly has be- fore it draft resolutions A/36/L.59 and A/36/L.60. Let me deai with the first of these drafts first.
313. In my statement at the 95th plenary meeting I sug- gested that representatives should look at the Middle East as a whole, since the name of the item before us is li…
