S/PV.2180 Security Council

The next spceab;e~~ is 32~~ representative of Lebanon, on whom I now call. Ce lillore the Security Co if in a periodic ritual, to renew the m te of the ited N&ions e in I,ebanOa.( - a rit ich was this time preceded by SOIrE vcrry Pain d, I dare say, f2mstratin~ discussims about f'cmns aad vords, which made it appear that the fate of peace-keeping, of huaJan beings and of the land was contingent upon-paragraphs and resolutions, 3: say to the Ambassador of Kuwait that: no one knows that better than ale do. Whereas, ia fact, the future of south Lebanon, the land and the people, will, as everybody, ad we in Lebanon in particular, knows, be decided by greater determination on the terrain - a determination by the Lebanese authorities, which should ani will continue to er( joy the unanirmus support of the Security Council and an ~equivocal understanding of the objectives of peace-keeping. +&en we last met o~tl this subject in June SOIE of us were so naive as to imagine that it might be the last such. renewal, I for one was among the naive, And I recall expressing a feeling that I shared with many members of the Council, that; UNIFIL had already probably been overstretched, that we should not take UNIFIL for granted and that some basic, some historic, decisions should be taken . , if we w&e to maintain the Force in-any significant ral?nner. 'With his usual frankness and great intellectti honesty, the Secretarg-General opened the debate by stating that if certain conditions could not be met "it may well become necessary even to envisage the withdrawal of the Force before it has -filled its mandate, despite all. the dangers that this would entail*'. (~/pV.2147, p. 6) It must be very frustrating for the Secretary-General and, indeed, for us U that six months later, after what appeared to be a turning-point in peac&keepi~ in Lebanon, the same warning should DOW have beea reiteratedin no equivocal terms at this table, and with .the some authority of wisdom and objectitity by the Secreta~-General in his report; (S/13691). Yet the mandate Just had to be renewed, since it was felt *II, again ia the words of the Secretary-General - that "any move to withdraw or reduce the Force at this Jmcture, would *e* be extremely dangerous a for it mild easily result in a resumption of hcMAlities not; only in the UNIFIL area of cqeration but II&SO elsmfbere in the region." (s/JSL Par@. $9) . It is in that; spirit that qy Government has supported the m&rte of UNIFJCL, for in no way would we w-t, at this ~WY ~~t~~~ JUT in the Middle East, mher to endanger peace %nd SeCmitYa On the contrary, we earnestly hope that, mder you wise guidance, &, President, this august body will find it possible ta cope with situ&i s that appear to be SO much more threatening and delicate and of far-reaching COXlSequence. Whereas it is cugWmmry, Sir, to congratulate the Pr?esident cm the assumption of his task of leading this council, allow me rather to congratulate the Council and, in particular,. those metiers that now feel the kc@ortance of . stren@hening its authority, on having you in.the Chair) the representative of a world of patience, a heritage of legendary wisdom, a politicti culWre in which a naturral sense of dimensions blends marvellously with a traditional concern for morality and dignity. You therefore find it easy to understand the feelings of & country that has now been a hostage for years: a hostage of war . and now a hostage of its very yearning for peace. . L But how xnuch longer should the situation be allowed to continue!? Eaw znxkh I , longer cm the world tolerate a situation in which people are c&ing evr~rl~p dgg of . * m ev&$ month of every year in my country, through no fault of their own, wkxi.Xe . gallant soldiers of peace imperil their mm lives as witnesses of a wxr tha-t they axe not LLXowed to prevent? l . While eqressing m3f country% gratitude for the peace-keeping fbrcw and their officers,' ccmrnanders and men, and its ccmmitonent GO the objectives of this Council, I wish to nmke the following rexmrks very clearly andwithcwt ' mibiguity: First9 qy Government has no illusions about: the success of UI!?I??IL, if the present context of violence and defimce continms, as described in me Secretary-General*s report, The dcious circ&e refkrred to ia the zxpcmt murrt be broken. Our territcdal. integrity, our independence ad our so-umcirJnty cannot be subJected to any ncxMLebanese impc~~ti~s; mm sgecificw, it c,rurnat be subJected to Israel*s aggressive mbitions disguised 85 Q~&'s perception of its own over-all. security" (5/136gl,paraa 58), Not only is this aituatha immnral and a flagrant violation of intemationti law, it $8 ~SO self-drefreat%~ ami mndu&re to further warfare, f'urther bload&m3, mthes guff"ering anb grcatCr p&f1 to each and all, * EC/15 , . . Secondly, whereas we reafize that the quc+stia of Lebana, ad particularf_y of southern Lebanon, may be considered, - and 1 stress ?n.ayil - to be related to the . OV~Y-EU 'situation in the Hiddle East, which is what is once more suggested . in paragraph 58 of the Secrete-General% report,we wish to reiterzxte once again ad beyond any cI.oubt that peace in the Lebanon canncrt;, should not, a& indeed sh&Ll not wait for a fimLL settlezzent of the Middle East problem, Quite to the contrary, pre strongly believe that continuedviolence in kbaozx, which many may fina convenient, will serve only to com@icate the HiddIe Eastern problen ad to imperil the chances of a just andlastin~ settlenmt, A Lebanon in, crisis has proved to generate, far beyond its borders, forces of destabiILization'azzd turmoil - ideological, revoLutionaxy ~~~devlen religious 1, tliat need not be described here. A Lebanon with restored sovereignty alla nat;ionaJ, unity will, within the frework of Arab solida;rity, contribute & nothing other can to the settlencent of the Yiddle East question based obvriouly ODE tile fU1 recogtxition of legitimate Palestinian rigtrts &d the AiLfitint of the Palestinian nation&identity in a Palestinian - not 8 diaspora - homeland, . . By it, haturaJ.* democracy a peaceful Lebanon ~821 andWiUbeco= &@I a ffafirtor 7. of'prog&sk "iknd a s&&ficest contributor“%o peace, justice, libeew sad"' "*' . * polit~caL*stability i&he whole rGgi&' ' " " * : LI- . . I . , opposition to & linkage between the q&&ion of South Thi&ii$o~ Lebanon. and'&e,Niddle East question is tie11 founded inthis Comcil*s proceedings, ‘*F& whereas we me here concerned with resolution 125 (1978) l * ad the' ehsting 'resolutions, the Middle East problem shotiN *d its . solution by the implementation of resolution 242 (1967), to which I* are hot associated in ~IY manner or form, NW, emn me: we xMuB~C~ be trapped ixrto becoming - evea throu& m accideatal linkage 9 part; adpw1 of a broader scheme within which som may be tempted to view us 8~s a ne@ti&le orprob&ly a dispemable country. In this attitude we ;latrr the untpa&lified supgort Of the mezribertr Of the League of Arab states *o Wdtted themrmel~, at the Sdt Iketing in Tunis of ltfowkber 1979, to the %nplePacntatien of resolution 425 (1978) and to the defence of Lebanorh sbwreimty, independence and national ur3ity. The present resolution must not be viewed 88 IEP[I aulomgt;ic reaaraJ, fobs . a peace-keeping force that vill socn. fsJL1 into the ublitian; of a desper~e situaticaa, m &leg&on has insistedthaet; the renew& be nel.atedto a plaza ofYing?lementation. h -bike fib plan VW? seriously and we look 1;9~oo the reactivation of the IsraeLlebanon axed ArPds$ice ccmmzissicm (I with the assistance of the Secretary-General, 8s a major conttibukionto the restoration of our sovereignty and terri.tori&L integrity, &s well as a major imrtnxment in the implemerrtation of the Ccmx5l~s basic obJiective of peace. Shotild no prqqess be possible within a rmisonable petioii,we shall come to the Council before the new ma&i&e expires seeking, under pa;ragqph 10 af the new resolution, resolution k59 (1979) "practical wws and meax~~ in accordance with re1evaxx-t provisions of the Chmr" . to restore Lebanese bovereignty over a2.l of Ikbazmn% territory z;tp ta its . internationally recogized boundaries, In this respect, we note with the are&zest appreciation the Council~s . . . call for respect of our. tezdt0ri&X Qktegrity, & - feel that the Ooubicil I a I - . - - * *. * . w s . I . .* . L W&S re&~,,,I.ly echoing a llniversti concern mxpressedby a&most eve- &Wg=tifrom the TOS-~;~U~ of the Gener&l. &sembly, We areindmdvexy proud aad . very encouraged by the fact that rarely has such a mnall ccnantxy rrtceimd~ \ . * . rsuch great support azld that we should have been Jrmembered in a very'si l . significant mrvrner by Pope Joha Pmil II, To His Holiness' mdto al those who prayed for us, to those who expressed-their somxw or their copfsid&Loe, or their remiLSion, we say here that Lebanon will ammiber the trust and the challenge. We want them to know that we shall neither cede mm f-&t. We are all the more encourae;ed by the fact that to&ayb xesciL\rtlan so ayuitmlically mmtions, in wh& may qpcar (m umxmmttiontrl form, the city of Tyre WI a heritage? of interest to all. mankind, Is it not tmgic thtzk the 6,000 years of uninterrupted hi8tWy represented in that city shoula also be threat ened, as me the lives of so uaqy imxesxt human beinepr, by the lnost senseless and arrogant war? Never before has the world felt hm mu& expected of intermtional institutions su& LCS the &c&-Q &m& h p-5 SO let us together, large aad smdl, prove that peace cmumt be sou@t outside this frasnework; and that the izlost puwerful aJTe no less mil,nemble thain weakest if lawlessness is allcnredto prevail and if force, no nmtter hew minimal., is aJLlmm3 to become a licence ta act against intem&ionaJ. Ju&m, the law of naticms and fundamental human ri&ts. For our part;, althow Living in crisis,we shall a&ways ,&and with intermstiona2, law and ordre~ md with those who defadthe z&s of m8xz and of nations alike. &. Presidat, I wish to thank you aad the metiers of the Cmzrwil once more for your suppti and your patience, and for having allotred me to speak. Z aLso want to thank in particular the Govezmments of the countries whose support has expressed itself, over md above their statemmts here, in the mtQst precious of contributions: contingents of their own men, of their azmies which must '&lmy~ be looked upon as a unique expression of international responsibility, 1 wish also to tha& those Governmmts that; have conttibuted fba&ally azld by mraterial suppoti towards what appealrs to have becruae a'very costly peace-keeping operation'; I cm only wish'that those .m contributions had been universally borne by all &dthRt we had found . * xr~ans of spendin& so'ma;ny &illi&s on reconstructing rather than ori I preventing further destruction. . Tfsis is the last meeting in which some of the xnelribers'here presm& w;il,,l discuss the question of Lebanon, I wish to address to those antiers qy deepest feeling of brotherly tiendship and esteem, I should like to sila,e5le out one cxf then, the representative of ICwait, m[y friend RbaAllaBish~, LL fkiend of long years parrt aad, I hope, of long years to come. A;;;iba~~tir Bishara, m a representatiw; of the Amb G~OIQ in this Clouacil,h~ litredl with IUS the agony of long hours of consultatian, private 8L1c1, public, fb and informsl,md of long hours of debate, and ha8 aSO ah-din m*hg &cisions that were scm&bm paldbble neither to himself IIW to bthtm. His great i~telJ,ectuaA ixrtegrity has helped reconcile many irreconcil&rle attitudes and his culture - Shakespearem a~ welz M A&b -ha @Rnae of the &y words of re8t&Utions ad Of 8peecbes 8 l%dW dbd~% I should lik e this occ-i Lieutenant-General Siilasvuo, who is now Co-ordinator of the Uziited Nations forces in Lebanon hm been invaluable, I: want also;in pa&icular;to address -once pllore to Blajor-Geaeral Bxkine, her . present, my great encouragemznt for the very uqqratef'ul task The PRESIm\JT (interpretation from Chinese): !L!he rmst speaker is the representative of Israel. I invite hirntot&e apl~zce at; the ~unci1tdbl.e and to make a statemen&, Mr. J3LUM (Israel): Mr. President, at the outset, let 3111~3 pay qy . respects to you on your assumption of the presidemy of the Sectit;y CXmmil fcwthis month. . II I should like also to t&e this o~ortunity Of eXpreSSing IS;rat;lwS - *-m appreciation of the exemplary manner in which the represehtative of~Bolivia * *carried out.his duties as President of the Couincil last mcmth, Since Bolivia I_ - A will be leaving this Council at the end of this.Inronth, I wish 'to aress to ---- a . . . ,& - . * Axibassador Palacios de Vizzio our ~pmcxiat~on of the stxtesman-like mrretnner* - : -* . 9 . .w - .- in which he has represented his country in this. Council - a ccxmtrg with vbicb I). . . Israel has clase asld friendly reltiions, l w . I . . . . I . e regard to t e situation jn Lebanon as a whole, evens *ho it is reclognized by al.1 th,& the situat&m in the scxkh cxuu~Qt be treated in isoLa-t;ion. listened t;o SOX~ of the slxxtements thus far, o==ight a st conclude: that everythin, F in Lebanon north of the Litmi River is blissfkil, Ik~ce and qui~tm " sweetness and light reign evezqwh~e. Syrians and t&z&r arxqyof occupation have long gone home to tend ' *heir fields and orchards. The terrorist PLO has restored Beirut to its rightfuL cmners. Lebanese authority is f?ully re-established and hcxxwred by all, In Beirut the barricades hmm long ccme down, t &;u-tited streets have been, rebuilt. and the luxury hotels have reopened * IiiWea the &~inas are back in full swing. By contrast, the situation int the marginal area south of the Litagi River is radically different. To describe %t; Amlbsadcm .. l Bisha hrr,s even mobilized Dante. There, 812c3. only there, tbR scene is one of constant violence and bloodshed. The dr~tispessonae 1&3ce presented as fc%ILaws, On the one &de, there are the- %xmed elments;" made up of the PLO, who are peace-loving, pastoral and innocent, and their supporters in the so-crslled anese National Woyement, wim am eqwlly passive and inoffensive. Co~mfronting them are the "de facto forces," sometimes cdl&d "Christian a&L associated militias ')I* who are evil through and through bemuse, ECS local Lebanese, they have the gall and the temerity to withstand d defend themselves against alien elements, that is, the PLC). Supposting those "Christian and associated militias" are the biggest villains of them al&, the Israelis, D&J16 s 2180 62 . IMghtful as this sit-t&n-y be, it providentia3ly lends itself to a quicls and neat solution: Dis d the "Christian and assackal;ed iililitias," stop the &ssiStance they receive From Israel, and the blissf%iL tranquillity and paradise up north will aui;cmxtic&Lly be extended to embrace the tormented south. It is almost as simple asthat, AS we all how, the reality both in the north and in the s&th of Lebanon is very different. Anarchy prevails north of the Litani, with daily outbreaks of violence of all kinds. Only on 12 Decmber, last week, there was el 'bloody clash I"Ln Beimt between Syrians and Chrisiians in which 12 people-were reported. in@red, four seriously. - -- In the northern city of Tripcli there are fkequent clashes amd * incidents, principally because of the tensions between local Sumi MxleEs and the Syrian army of occupation, In parrillel, there are Frequent confkontations between different terrorist groups belongirg to the PLO. !Etrs,for example, on 12 and 13 December, there were - c reports of exchanges of fire between Fatah and a.pro-Ikaqitiw . of terrorists in a refbgee camp nem Tripoli. .a . Not only do Syria as;l8 the PLO continue to exploit the flighti acid turmoil of Lebmons but othv Arab States also continue to see in the crisis of Lebanon a means;of advancing their own partisan . aims within; the well-known web of inte.NWab rivsllriese !lYhist3mgic - yhemmenon came out into the open at the tenth Arab me flrmnait, held a month ago in Tunis, fkom which the terrorist PLO exnerw declaring that it would cotltinue to use Lebanese territory as a staging Egrou& for its crtiina3, activitieso~ Thus, havim been instrumenta in crestinl( havoc ti Lemon and ti subvetiag the sovereignty of thct co ry and the authority of its e&t y the PLO &ill maintains about lS,OOO ed men in th8-t count 9 of Id2 about 1,500 are in the so-c&Ued 'Ifyre pocket) stretchkg to within ei nilcs of Isra&, and several hundred EQ~~ are in IL% area of operations. . UNIF'Il& fumtion is described in the presetit report, as i.n previous onesl, as a "two-stage operation". According to paragraph 19, the first stage tas to confirm Israel% ~thdr&vEb~ fkcxn Lebanon - which w&s in fact coiilpleted and confirmed on 13 June 1978 - and the secmdto establish and maintain an area of operations, This description of UNIFIL% ticLion misconstrues its threefold mandate, as originally set out in Security Council resolution 425 (1978), . At the time that resolution was adopted, the Council took cognizance of the problem of Lebanon in its entirety, reco@zine that .the presence of 30,000 Syrian troops, plus 15,000 PLO terrorists on Lebanese soil constituted a r,lajor obstacleto the re-es=t&il.ishmezxt of I,X&anonls authority over its om tmritory 8nd to the restor&‘t&xl l of international peace and security. ' With those considerations in mind, the Council called for: tt ,,,strict respect for the territorial integrity, sovereignts aMd political independence~t - t , and I stress, politicail independence - IT . ..af Lebanon within its interxiationally recognized 1 boundaries". (resolution 425 (1978)~. para.X) and UT;TIFII, was entrusted with asl appropriate mandate.. It was established not only for the purpose: of confirming the tithdr&wal of the Israel Defence Forces, but also few: i? ,..restori~ international peace and security and assisti= the Government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective mthority in the area", (ibid., pa.3) In order to achieve this p ose, L the infiltration of ed persc~n o the mea under its coILtz"ol, an instruction *aimed at pz%ventizg the P Froan ret ta the regian *M which was f'kee of their presence at the time - this being a necessary condition for the establishment of int ional peace and security. . . I am sorxy to say that the report before us is sl PLO and against the local Lebanese forces in the sout;l;L, Let-= first . S example which is chawcteristic of the way the facts are presented., parqgraph 56 of the report, attempts at infiltration by the axe said - be %cplained" by them asd their allies as being defensive measures, necessi*a~a by a&ions OF ixztentions of the de facto forces- T%hen it CCRES to the de, fa&~ forces, however, they we said in the s-e comexion, to "seek to justify" their activities, ad so forth. It is not just that this lack of b&Lance runs the length af the report, but what is also happening is that the de fart0 f~xxx%~ t* .I 4 which are mde up of local +Lebmese villagers in the south defending t'fieir kxamles WA families are'treated with greater disfavcmr than alien elemmts Whic%bVe ,.- illegally infiltrated into UI?IFIL*s area of operations. Let me give s&mxCL mcme examples of what I have in mind. A ~~~SOm~ situation with pcddklly dangerous implications has been created by ZEE fwzt . that the laurtiber of terrorists within UNIFIL% area of operations has incme~~d, . especially since the cessation of fire of last Augwt entered into -force, Attemptk ’ at . infiltration by terrorists liter&l.,ly under the .eyes 0~ -15 bn * * . intensified. in the period under consideration. out ofAL1 ccmpariscm with Ishose -L which took place during the previous six manths. Paragraph 21 of the General% report for January to June of this year, documerrt S/13384 of 8 Jlme ~L979&%Micated that UMFIL stbpped some 40 major infiltrwtion atte e involving 140 terrorists. , By contrast, paragraph 36 of the pr~ent re-port P IJO infiltration e;,ttempts involving almost 800,terrorists; which i?s; to SW rate of attempted infiltrations has gone up a7ost three times, and th+z ' of terrorists involved.almost six times, tae extent to which the PLO is prepared to "respect" UNIFTL ad the cessatga fire. This is by &o mel~lllxls the end of the story. The total number of terrori stationed within kFIL% area and %ecognizedN by UMXIL has grown co-i ' While in the past, the; United Nations used to refer to the presence of 200 armed terrorists in its area of operaticw, today it is a fact that abtxxlt 700 armed terrorists loc&ed in ,about 25 positions there - whl& rw reason me not mentioned at all in the report, lJNIFILfs area are, of c~urae, addition&l to the 1,500 PI0 terrorista haalready indicated, are located in the so-called Tyre pocket. The l~geterrorist presence in IFIL'S area of 0 f!requency 0 their attempts to infiltrz&e that ana not only serious the temoz5st activiQr is.+ They aLso paint t0 fa&tI3at terrorist infiltrators have escaped tJW~IL*s notice. 3k1 additicm, t that even those who hake beezz caught are likely to succeed in inffitratjlag %xto the area the next tinte around. Reference is made in the report to the exchanges of fire and shoating in the mea since the cessation of fire of last August. What is omitted, hcwmer, is the fact that mst of the shooting has been initidxa by the PLO against ILeWnese villages on the border with Israel without pm-vocation frcxn aqy qu&rterm MU& of the PLO* s fire has been directed from their positions in a;nd arcnmd 3eaufort Castle. A recemt example of this reprehensible pheno=non wgs noted by a IIHIETL spokesman ox1 13 December with reference to the serious shooting incident the day before, I, * However, when the report mentions, in paragraph 20, the withdrawal last July of the United Nations liaison observer tea91 ‘from BeauSort Castle, %he ori& reason given is the shellling of the area by the de facto forces m I!?0 xnmxtion is c made of tJx~ PLO positions in and around the castle which, as jiust indicated, =*- . . constituted and still constitute a major scxxrce of tension md violence in She area,, In paragraph 48 of the report, the planting of mines in the ?JIKEtL area is described as "a disturbing developxnent of relatively recent oceurre~ce", 1xX the several. incidents listed, am U'XCFIL soldier was killed and three wezx~ wounded. Thq paragaph conclude8 that in all cues "it has been impossible to dtztannine the identity of those responsible for planting the mines'tm !I!!he fact is that the mines in question were of Soviet mlanu;ttacture and it is well known that sly the PLO terrorists and their associates use such mines, w4y then the qmtery about the identity of those responsible POr laying thm? Xn this ctxmexiorx, it shcniki be borne in mid t&k the five . who lost their lives w a resxil.t of hostile aCtion h t& 1.t Sk wax? killed, directly or indirectly, as a result of PLO activiixies, wbic been the cause of the ovenshelming majority of the 19 f'daiti~3 which has suffered in the line of duty since its inception in WC As in the past, the r&o& refers to the PLO e *'mmdi elementsfyr Fw 1 the first tim, however, the intaztion of this esoteric phrase is s-l&d out and its meaning is given as the PLO. Thus, the confksions ws& bm -isen in the past will perhaps be avoided and so, fW e-W the represatati~ of Zarabia'will not have to assert that the "amned elementzH me abetted by IsmJ., and then, go on to draw totalily erroneous conclusion% as happened in the CouncilTs meeting on 30 August 1979, as can be seen from documezxt s/pv,2165, pag;e 21, * . Turning ta the bma&r dimensions of the problem, let me reiterate that the G0ve-d of Israel supports the national. sovereie;nW and lxzrr&oz%l integrity of Lebanon within its internationally recognized boundaries, IsraRl ” wants -peace in and wi;‘h Lebanon. It hss no .territosisl claims on Lebanon, on.31 bfay 1979, 12 June 1979 and 29 August 1979, I drew the attention of this ComciL to a fonrmal invitation to negotidx? peace with Lebanon mm& - K " by the: Prime Minister of Israel in the Knesset I) Israel% Parliament, cm 7 lQ&Y 1979. Israel &ill awaits Lebaon% response tlcl that imitation, 71. mandate - and hem 1 = referring to docment S/k2147, page 37 - &e . ~~emment of LeJxuxm ha? made it clear by its declarations ad action that; it considers the 1949 General Armistice Agr&mat to have co~l?es to 89 end. Consequently-, it is aho tcatxd~y inadmissible for the Lebtrnese ~UWZZ& otl"lers, to attempt, as he did in his memorandrar of 30 May 1979 (~/13361J, to make others p&y to a now-def'unct bila&ma.l. treaty. !I!he essence of the &mistice Agreement WM summed up in article III, which, inter alia, prohibited ffperraailitary" - including "non-mqpilsr fmces" - from oper&ing from the territories of either party. As long as Lebamn does not comply with that A;lsldamental obligation, reference to the Armistice Agreement and the l?mmwurb established under it can scarcely be me~ingfbl., l ': * . As mentioned in the report, Israel has ccmtinued to co-aperate with UNIFIL and extend help to it. d . .I P I should like to take this opportunity to pay a special tribute ti Lieutenrunt-General. Ensio Siilasvuo, Chief Co-ordinator of the United l!kticms - Peace-keeping Missions in the Middle East. *As has been rvtnounced today, General Siilasvw will relinquish his post at the.‘end of.the ye, after long and distinguished service in the cause of petice in the Middle East. . In the course of that service, General Siilasvuo has earned the respect md . appreciation of all the parties. On behalf of the Government ad peopltt of Israel, I wish to express to him our gratitude and respect. We wish E&O to s&lute the Commmder of UICFIL, Major-General &QWXXWLA* and his staPf, as w&L as the soldiers of all ranks serviw 6th uE;IIFIL in the most arrduous of circumstances. Lapses and irregular activities by ind~'I?idXdL members of the Force do not reflect on the commendable pefQmC@ Of the Force as a whole. Before I conclude, let me r&urn to the daar&xil issue, It is to detach the question of s&z-therm Lebanon from the situaticm h I&b-n as * a whole will not solve any problems and will not e ta? cake Qf p-e, As is reeognized in paragraph 59 of the Secretary-Generalgs repoti (S/13691), the situation in the south of Lebmon implications for the Middle region as a whole. lChe converse of' this proposition is also true, and without exaggb, Izticm one may ssfely say that the situation +in the ncrth of the country 1 not only affects the situation in the sduth, but indeed is also the dcmirmnt factor in the south. Consequently, peace cannot be restored in Lebanon and the Lebanese Government cannot ye-establish its effective authority anywirere in the ccmntry while a massive Syrian army of occupation holds Down the bulk of the country . and while PLO terrorists, trained and armed by the Soviet Unicm, are given free rein on Lebanese soil, Until the nettle of the fundamental problem plagguing Lebanon is grasped, nothing will be achieved, The PLO and its allies must cease operating in 8lLLd fkom Lebmon, !I!he Syrian occupation of the countz-y must be ended, Until * these basic requirements azle achieved, there is no way that Lebanon can be‘ reunited as a free and independent; country~ To that end,.the resistamxshown by groups of local Lebanese in the south - Christians, Moslems and Druze alike - should be seen for what it is; namely, . a willingness rvld determination to defend Lebanon fkvm the alien farces threatening the coumtqr% independence, sovereignty and texritcxrial integrii+ Finally, since in all likelihood this will be the&z& Council deMte fn which I shall participate before the end of the year, I should like, with your permission, Nr, President, to take my leave of the representative of the geographical region of which my ccxmtry is a part, From Janusry 1980, w shall miss dearly.the presence of the representative of Kuwait - althou& I must confess quite frankly that on occasion I had serious doubts whether he had the interests of his entire constituencg at; hear& & !&all I&S Ambassador Bishars% wit, his elegance, his literary Porrya, his experti\so in Shakespeare, in Dante - and in the "ruks of x)rOCe&uFh . (interpretatio the repreSent e Palestine Liberation Ckg~ization, I him, m . ML TELRZI (Palestine Liberation Organizatio~)(PO): I wish to thank you ar;ld, through you, the other nmibers of the Securitg Council for extending 811 invitation to the Palestine Liberation &~!iz&icm to take part in this debate - whether they did that openly or by omission. I wish to stress at this juncture the significant fact that since 1965 the People's Republic of China has maintatied the best am3 xnost cordial, relations d't;h the representativ?s of the Palestinian people, the Palesli~ Libere;t; ion Organization. We have always had ccmmdely relations. 'The People's Republic of China, in addition to according diplcnnatic reco&tion to the Palestins Liberation Ckganization, actively and materially supports us by opening their colleges and academies to Palestinians who have been forced out of their homes. Some of these Palestiniam have Pound in China a parental reception, and they ale pursuing their studies there. I wish to . reiterate OUT thmks to you, Sir. . 0 1 . , . -. . . . . . It.* R/hh s/~v/2180 76 Before commenting on the report before us9 I wish ti state that the'ne . agencies have brcnqght us news that sime midnight last night the Isra&zis . have been shelling the regions around Nabatiyeh, Arlaouxl and Shouwaykee with heavy artilbsy.' This shelling has continued for severd hoursI and, according to the news agencies, this is* the fourth time in a week - and this is only Wednesday - that Israeli shelling of south Lebanon has been reported. Perhaps this is the best ans~~?3p that Israel gip;es us as regards the atmosphere in this debate at the present juncture. Turning to the report of the Secretary-General, I would say in aJI1 fairness that theSecretary4eneral has reiterated a vezy strong point, wlhich should be the mly point, and there should a& be any diversion or deviation from the discussion of it in regard to the action of lJlKiFIL. He says:. "As I'mentioned in w previous report, . an essential factor in UNIFILr s success in the implementation of its mandate is the position I think it is there that the illness lies, That is w&re the disease.is. " That is whe%*the cancer is, It is on this point that we should . concentrate wr discuf&n, and we should. not discuss what is happeninK in Tripoli or what is h@pening somewhere in the Jungle, It is f!kwn this that UNIFIL% mandate starts, because, I wd.d recall, resd&ion 425 (1978) made it clear that UNIFILQ mission w&s to confirm the wilMrar;wal of Ismmli forces from southern Lebanon. !I!!hoae forces fimre nc%yet been withdrawn and this is mere the root of t&e evil ia, !ibe statement of the 'Secretaxy-Genezxtl is not accidental. Uxk5.n~ at the report submitted by him for the period from 16 June 1978 to 15 June 19?9, which is contained in docment A/34/2, on evem sinlqle wm fkwm pqp 3 all the way to page 19, I dare sery, one will f'ind statements of th%8 ktnil - aJnd I will quote fkom only oneI %ajor problems had confr tt;dUXKL a and-t phase Op the Israeli withdrawal on 13 June, when, with minor exceptions, the withdrawing Israeli. forces had handed over control of the emctuxted area Dot to UXIFIL but to the Lebanese de fagto axmzd groups in the axea c by MaJm Haddad." (A/34/2, para. 11) The report goes on ta say that the Secretary-CWmml "pointed out that the currmt situation, thmu,& no fault a9 lUiKtFIL, was unacceptable, since the fact that the Israeli forces hsuzded cmer conlrol of the border area to de facto armed gxxps rather than to UDDFIL had prevented. the fkiL1 deployment of the Force asrd the . restoraticm of the auehority of the Lebanese Gcnerpnaenlt; b t& wkjle area of operation." (ibid,, paxa, 12) There are, of coume, many references and mmy statements to the same effect in this report, md -that is what we shot&La deal. with& We sh~tid not Ery t0 b seaxch for sane escape-from the facts and h&l. wkt;h so-c&l&d f@'iCtft~Ous! rki~ ,I . cirches w It is not a question of vicious circles or of strife in sewthem . I;∾n among some Lebaese and some Palestinians OF others. It 5s the. fm~ki c . . . . intervention, 8s the Sec~etary-Genertil says very clearly in his repoem It was no accident that when the Sixth Summit Conference of '8fczkAli(5ned s Countries met in Havana last Septexibe~- immedfatelx after the meeting the Councillmd to hold in August - the non-alimed countries adopted, among other things, a resolution condemning Israel far its cuntinued ag;gression in Lebanon and its refusal to withdraw f'rom certazin positions which it continued to occupy. In that res'olution at that swmxit confezpnce the non-aligned countries asked that the Council apply apC&inst Israel meaEsU%S set forth h Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter ia o&r to dissuade it llhnsra contiming its aggression against Lebanon and to halt the wor8aing of the situation in the* regiona. Tfiere are mnetinm unbelievable, OF ratht+~ f~~stinian people, This is something that is Qntamn~t to an at t at gefiocide. Yet in this Council we hear that eqmtm3 with the resistxxnce and the explosions of some bombs iz~ the occupied territories. I see no cannexiczm between legitimate acts of resistance by the Palestinian people against the . Israeli fcwces of occupation and Israel% acts af terrorkn agdmt (lur peg@+? in refugee CEUE~S in southern Lebanon. When this debate stated, when the invasion Of Israel came h &kmh 19% the same story was told: that it was these criminal Palestinians who were taking a free hand in Lebanon. On that occasion, 1 wotiki recfi9 1 Said *hart the Ptiestinians happened to be in Lebanon, not because they wzmted tea be there but because they were driven there. They did not go there of their OWXI Choicem . They were expelled at bayonet point, as a result of a cz%xina.lly conceived campaign of terrcw. I was referring to the criminti aets ccmmittedia 1947 aad 1948 by the so-ca*tlled Jewish armed ga;ngs, amfi 1 recalled in particlllar the m5me comitted at Deir Yassin, which was carried out by none other than the present Prim Mini&& of Israel, who was ircmicaUy - and shmAilly, I wou3.d say -. decorated as a Pea& Prize winner. III pIlESUing its acts of terrcxism Israel, a Member of' the United IRxtioas, comiLte6 a crime of mwder last Saturday, when its agents gummed down a mxriber 9 of the PaLestine Liberation Organization diplomatically accreditedto a mission in Cyprus. With him, a visiting colleague wag also gunned dmm. , Yesterday there was a rally in Beirut at the burial of the vjictims of that crime against diploma;ticaJly accredited representatives, Chaim Amfat . made a statesnent at that rtily and, among other things, he said: NWhat is currently happening in sotxth Lebmcm is not just a demand for the withdrawal of the forces of the Palestinian revolution aad the Lebanese national moveme.nt. Rather it is a demand to implen;ent the Zicmist plan, which covers not only Palestine but south Lebanon and north Lebanon II a8 well * " I trish to remind representatives t this il a map showing the Zionist to ac s of asxlml, nut secretly but openly, zmde in 1919 at the Peace Canferencle inYersd ChsirmiElul Arafat yester ) in his &8tem?nt at the burial of his &S in arxns, wznt on to say: . ?Jw ccmibat on this IIBZTCW path does xzo1; mean that we want Leb as an al-tmmative hanelandI, It is those who f% revolution and those who are with Carrrp David - is th08e lirho * . to settle the Palestiaislzs in Lebanon? .N7 I wish to assvtre the Council that we Palestinians have 3~10 ixrterrtion J whatsoever of replacing our Palestine with th*3 beau&i country of Lebarnrrn* All . we are looking forward to is to be permitted to return to OUJT own country, . establish our own State a;ad live in peace, SQ that peace till prevail in the are8 a . Jt is incumbent upon this Council to come Up with mm& * that om people% trust in this Council wil..l be no room for despair. We -are approaching Christmas. At this point I would recall the Christian Mmoniteg of t& viJlages in lbrth Pabstine tbaf Were occupied in 1948, 1 am referring to Kafr Birizn &d Ikreet. The people of those tm vi1 es hare . since 1948 been Israeli citizens, Yet, until now, and it is almost 1980, tlmy have been denied the right to z-etxrn to their little Vil.k%&es ad settle there* mey w& on one occasion denied the right to restore the church bell and to celebrate Christmas in their villages. And yet here we hear someone talking I * abut Christians, or something like that. !I!hose viLLaffers have become Israeli citizens, and yet they me denied the right to celebrate Christmas Eve in their mm'chapels, in their own villages. They are Mbronite Palestinians. I wish to extend to the representative of Bolivia our felicitations md congratulations on perhaps doing something much more effective aazd feeling happier. I know how he felt when this Council elected him a membr of the Commission to go md investigate Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories, and he &as denied permission by none other than one who said he was & eod f&&d of his. He'was denied pemission to p 811jl investigate. It is v~try difficult to have such hypocritical friends, or Friends who JDX re%ll~ more , . enemies than fkiends, Finally, I sincerely hope that UNIFIL will fulf5.l its ession d thd it till confirm that Israel has fdly with&am prOm fiebwese temit& ma that the Leba.nese Government is in pull authority and exerciqsing so~~jiiprty I in its territory up to its borders tith Palestine, borders t&t &m m internationally recognized. ,The PRESIDE (interpretation from Chinese): I tm the representative of the Palestine Liberation Orga,nization for the friendly sentiments he expressed towards my country, I would infom the Council that I have Just received a letter from the repreaezrtative of the Syrian Arab Republic in which he asks to be imrittdto participate in the discuaeion of the item on the tZcmci18a agenda. In accom!lmzce with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of' the Qoundl, to $mr&te that; representative to psrticipete in the biacussio'~ without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevaxxt provisions of t rter and Cowaeil*s provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Mk. EGChoufi (Syrian Arab Republkc) took the_place reserved for him at the side of the Council -berm The PRESIDEZTT (interpretation from Chinese): I invite the represtxrtative of the Syrian Arab Republic to take a place at the Council table axld to make his . statement. Mr. EGCHOUFI (Syrian Arab Republic): Mr. President, since this is the first time I have spoken before the Council this month, allow me at the outset to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council,- laze friendly relations that have always existed between the peoples and Governments of China and Syria are excellent examples of the unselfish relationship upon which a new international order can be built. I should also like to pay & tribute to your predecessor, the Penmarrent Representative of Bolivia, for the able manner in which he guided the delibemticms 6f the Council during November; *' . 1 While thanking you, Sir, and the members of the Council for LLlouing IIE to participate in the discussion, I should like to explain that I had 11~0 intention of speaking. r am doing so o&y to reply to aat we have heard f"mm the representative of Israel. The Council has'just taken a decision concerning UNIF'XLts mndate j'ca southern Lebanon. As the Secretary-General mentions in his report, '%NIFIL was envisaged as a two-stage operation. In the first stage, the Force was to confirm the withdrawal of Israeli forces from LeIxmese territory to the international border." (S/13691, qaxx& 19) This was stated on 19 Maxch 1978,'and it is repeated in the present report of the Secretary-General. But, 88 we C&II see Prom the present report of the Secretary-General, UNIF'IL cannot yet carry out even the first stage of its mandate, which is to ensute x81~~i!1i withdrawal from rjebanese territor%es. 8kdl Israel abided by the Security Council resolutions cm southern Lelxmon, UKIFIL could indeed h&e discharged its re8ponsibilftie8, the Council vwld hwe &en saved further debate and the Middle Eksl wxild have been spared more tmub~t, Nowhere in the report of the Secretsry-General is mentioned. * me CO~C~~*S deliberations are limited to 'the situation in sout t0 UNlFIL% mandate. As has clewly emerged from the s representatives to, which we have listened, the world connnunity is genuinely concerned to ensure the f'uU?ilmeat of UNIFIL% mandate and to help the ~&mese Government to exercise authority over its own territory. Any attempt to c-e the focus of attention, to distort fact& to bomb-d the Security Comci,l tit-h fabrications and lies is an offence not only against Lebanon but against the world community EM well* Apparently f;be representative of Israel feels no she in undertaking this shameful. cxxxrse. He tried arrogantly to stupim US 'all, Allow me to give 0~ 02x2 example, The Secretary-General has rightly stated in his report: . *'As 1 mentioned in my previous report, SII essential factor in IL'S success in the implementation of its mandate is the position of the Israai - GOvernmenty inasmuch as the d,e facto forces are supported by Israel,” (ibid., para. 58) The representative of Israel did not choose to address himself to that fact, L Ta cover up the crimes of his Goverment he has chosen to resort to &x&t,, . lies, fabrications and the pretension of omnipotence. He speaks like a god. IPlnd why not? His rotten Zionist ideology'dictates that he belongs to the "chosen people? He thinks that; being "chosen" gives him the right to enslave . others, to occupy the lands of others, to interfere in the intemaJ. affairs of others and to Se a holy arbiter. Contrary to what we have heard from the representative of the neo-119aai Govermmxt, the Ambassador of Israel, Syria is not occupying Lebanon, I have on several occasions sLp;t,ed before this august body, and I state again, that Syria entered Lebanon in response to a clear invitation fmmthe legal L&mnese authorities. Syria has always been, and still is, read,y to withdraw ~ZXNQ Lebanon whenever the leGal Lqbatnese authorities 8~ ckmmd. Syria will news remain for a !single day in Lebanon against the till of the le& Lebanese authorities. The presence of' Syrian foxes in Lebamn has been dec$ded the Arab States and they are wnder the direct c d of the President 6, In conclusion, I shcxild like to appeal ta this body to use the * legal authority invested in it in the c2wrter 0fthe United Nations * once ad for a to put 'a stop to the nonsensical Israeli statements t Council has' so unjustly allowed itself-to.listen to and order the es50r to his aggression. I should like to appeal to the Council tcr rise to its responsibilities and put an end once and for all to Israel% contm of others. of us all, of the United Nations and of a civilized international order. P I re&Lize3 though, that, its arrogance notwithstanding, Israel is but a tool; a puppet. I know that the real. culprit.is the United States of lherica., *Without the ecommic, military, political and &Ll kinds of!' supwti the? United States Got;terment accords Israel, Israel cxmld nof;.be that axzngant;+ that privileged oM&m Without the b&ted States, Ima& could never exxjq its honeymoon of criminality. Therefore, by all rational logic this Council must, in QUT view, condenra not otiy the stooge but also the master. !I& United States is, in otxr apzixxiun, l - + ias rtzspo&,ble II) or, r&her, as irresponsible -'a~! the SsrSeliS. : We would have preferred to see the COUncil condenmine ISBXel,'s persistent defiance of Security Council decisions. Also9 we would h&--e we operative paraamph* 8 of resolution 459 (lgq$), which-the Council has just adopted, to be more.~~licit. The'Security Council shcnild have urged the ited 3t. St&es Goverwxent to discourage Israel from fFur=ther undermining the authority of thie Council and of the United Nations as a whole, Our respect for the American people is limitless. We believe that United States Gcnxmment owes it to its cxm history to take a stand at least once for Justice in the Middle East, I hope that the United States will discourage Israel from choosing a policy that can only be disrastrous not only f6r us the vi&i,ms of its continual aggression but also for the peace ad SecwTitg of It;fie: wtx9.d at large, !l?he PRESID&NT (interpretation From Chinese): 1 thank the representatsve of the Syrian Arab Republic fbr the kind wrords he addressed Ilt;c, me.. I now call on those representative8 who wish-to be allowed to ape& in exercise of the right of reply. . I: assure the Couac?il that I sh be brief and, again, that I shall not inte ne again 9~ flltl3r question relalin United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( this year, in 1979. God knows what may happen later. I have asked to speak now because the representative of Israel, Anibassadm Blum, gave me a Christmas present when he expressed his sentimmrts to me. And, in accordance with the basic norms of courtesy, 'when one is given a Christm prekent, he has to do the following: either to acknnwle the pres&xt or giw one in return. Unfortunately, I do not have a pmxent to give, but I have an acknowle~ement o which I shall. We. He spoke derisively and sarcastically about 1[9y quoting Shakespeare, Dante a2ld sometimes the Koran and sometimes the Bible, on which I am less learned. Perhaps I can leave him a legacy xmw, for the Christmas present he &DE me. a legacy whii=h is not &om the Bible, not fYom Shakespeare, not &cnn Chaurcer but ~ earn the basic fundaxnerrt;al proverbs of Kuwait. .I 8311 fascinated by 0~ expressions irl KUxait. These days w4? a?X? known becauseof our oil. But we.are not products of oil, we am pm&&s of desti=&.xti& from the years before the oil., years when we challenged the waves. invaded shores and smuggled gold into various countries. 3!!hrough that destitution, we came by oui sayings, one of which is: If you *&t something you do not deserve, please go and kiss the palm of your hand. I . I think that Israel has gotten - as the Americans say - 02 *has ~bt&&3 a resolution tJhich it does not deserve, Israel shcnild have been condemned; It should have been not only condemned but exposed. HOWEVII?]F, politics 8;;~e sometimes more powerful. than logic and, because of that, that simple Kdti proverb becomes 'more incisiw, more powerm and'mre truthm 5.n the . present circumstances. I have another Kuwaiti pro-Erb, which is alsa slegaey for Ctn5strmas. We say in Kusmit k ad here I have tried to juge;le with the words in order to make it truthful: If you reach ‘the sta@ at which you believe that ~rr>u cm 'make red, blue; black, white; and purple, pink; then, please, wu mst icomtit your mother, because, b~ically, there must be something inherently mngtith you, Procfmkhg from this Kwaiti proverb, I think that them 5~ a pliticaj. dislocation and intellectual deprivation in this exe&se of I) Perhqs the Israelis tith their logic should consult a political psychiattisl, I shall not @ on with those unflattering words, becauae I do ItlQf; like them., But, on a serious note - and this has nothing to do with Shakespeamz or even the proverbs of the Kuwaitis of the past, and they have different proverbs - these days - perhaps the best present, and a genuine one, would be 8fl acknowledgement fmm the Israeli Gove-& that; it will cease its support for Haddad. That is the key; the rest are ramifications, consequence8 and restilts. !Phe effect, the came and the m&on d*Gtre of the nlbole problem is that bizarre Israeli-Haddad relationship* And in diplomatie relations, it is a bizarre relationship, unprecedented since the dark ages. I hope that we are not uow in the darlr ages@ We claim that we are not, hurt;, in practice, we soxmtimes swim through the dmk waves of the valley of datrkness, The best thing that Anibmsador Blum could tell us here, instead aS twng about me tongue in cheek, would be that his Goverplnment is ceasing its assistance to Haddad - and that Trotid be the key for the success of UfXIl?n, . . ,there shotid be no problem; all he,needs do is consult~the report of -Che fW. - v Secretary-Ge33&al, rrhich substaxxtiates this theory. There is LIO need fbr discursive, s=i;odw, inexplicable statementsI The needhere is for cCLar%ty, and clarity is the enemy of evasiveness. !Fhose who have a weajk pint resort to . evasiveness; they avoid clarity; they shun it; because clarity is the detrimental enerqy of confusion and in confusion they sU171Jjws In south Lebanon, the Mhole theatre is the result of confusion, of this unholy alliance between Israel md Haddad. !I!hat is what I wanted to sqy at this juncture?, and, a@n, I wish tc) e assure the Council that I shall not speak aetin cm UNIFIL In 197'9; but perha- I shall do so next year. l&r. DE ZAVALA UlUlIOLAGOITIA (Bolivia) (interpretation front Sp I shall say an1y a few words to express my gratitude, o Palacios de Vizzio, who was Presiderrt df t;he Security Cmmcil during the of November, fur the cordialwords of con atulation addressed'to himby the . representatives of Israel and Syria. As for the reference made by rnly friend from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), I must remind him that the trip which I made to the &Mle East under a ma;ndate from this Council in accordance with its rescGxtion 446 (1979) was carried out as a special. mission af the Council, asld not as a friend of the representativxz of Israel, whose personal friendship I appreciate hi@ly, as I do my friendship with Mr. Terzi, the representative of the PLO. Mr. LUNGU (Zmbia): Ii@ delegation would like to respond very briefly to a statement made by the Ambassador of Israel in which reference was made to same part of a statexnent made in the Council by qy delegation in August 1979a c I!& delegation wishes to state that it reser=s the ri&t to cce)xrment in detail on the "matter at an appropriate time., should the need arisea * t Tithe PRESIDEX!F (interpretation from Chinese): !l!he representative of Israel has asked to speak in exercise of‘his right of reply. I ncnr invite . * hitrt to take a place at the Council table and to make his statement, Mr, BLUM (Israel): I gratefully acknowledge the present cfit'erpd to me by Ambassador Bishara, the represeutative of nqy geogra@ica3 region. I accept it in the s8xlke spirit in which it was given ta me. Frankly, I should have preferred another small gift, namely an announcemHF1!nt by Anibassadr,r Bk~baz-w that his Government had finally decided to accept Security Council resalutim I 242 (1967), which it has so fax rejected. Just to refresh the memory of the representative of Zmibia, let QUbte from the stat;ement m&de by another reprkmxkative of 2 30 August 1979 in this Council, He said: "The so-c&led armed elenents,who are abetted by Israel, aUs 1 the audacity and seacity to seize and abduct some Uizitzd Nations soldiers a~ hostages. What could be more terroristic thasl su& actions?'" (s/pv,2165, p. 21) I I quite agree. What coad be more terroristic than such acticms'f' k le&Mz and at long last we knar who those arxned elements are. Thathasbeen disc%oSed c to us in the lxst recent report of the Secretary-Genertie One might have expected the Soviet Union, which never supportedthe creakion of UNIFTL a&which dues nd; pay cmepemytowards its budGet, to be more circumspect in expressing its views on the raatterbefom -. In reality, the SovicdtUnion has rm interest in peace-keeping in I&baon or anywhere else in the Middle East. For a&mstthree dec~sithas been bling the flames 'of conflict in the region, It has pumped mms into the area aad continues to do so. It trECiIls, supplies and supports the PLO terrorists who-operate from Lebanon into Israel. l!?ow the Soviet &ion is m&ing every effort to torpedo the peace process and to prevent the estalblishment of i;ntermrtiona;L peace and security in tie Middle East, It is sce,rcely qualified to express a view in this debate. . I see little point in engaging in polemics for the ua@zeenth'time with the representative of Syria, that self-professed champion 69 t2& civiIked J internationeJ, order, He presents himself here as overfllcnrin~ with brotherly love towards Lebmon, fkll of chivaky aad honour, All of us kzmw on4 txmw~ the real adxxre of Syrian intembions re@?ding ' . Lebanon ;and the abcdbdbl~ record of his cot&zmy in fanning and fUeling the civil war in Lebanon fror its QwD pwrposes, with merciless disregard for the lives and propex*ty of the Various factions in that; ComXt~, as it stits Syria's aims 48% 8u3y g%Ventim, I shall also refrein from responding to his anti-Semitic outbwts mdniscent EB they me of a dnrk 2nd i,Tnoble era in the histoky of mankind. In my stz&ement I commented that various Arab States see in the Lebanese crisis a mezttns of advancing their 0~111 partisan aims Frithin the w&of I inter-Arab rivalries, In fact, count was far from original. IL was based not only on what we all know but also on observations made by a wellkxx~~1 Arab dirbnat only two months aco to a KutJaiti netrspaper. On 21 October 1979, AJ.-A&a of Kuwait qu&ed that Arab diplomt quite specifically ELS having said that there are Arab States which are interested in maixrtaining a state csf wsr in Lebanon. Incidentally, the diplomat quoted in that report wxz none other than Anabassador Tueni, our Lebamss colleague here. I: should also like to dralq the attention of the Council to remarks made ' only a few days ago by the Prime Minister of Lebanon with regard to the PLO terrorist presence in the south of his country. In an interview in the Lebanese paper Nonday Morning of 10 Deceziber 1979 Mr. al-Hum said that the terrorist presence in UNIFIL's area of operations violated Security Council resolutions, He continued that his county would try to bring about the thinningj &CI~ or the* total withdralral of the terrorists in that area, Mrs TUENI (Lebanon): There is always an air of unreality in a debate that takes place after a vote, which in United Nations procedure is called explamvtkms of vote. I could hardly find any explanation of vote in the various re&aarks made by the representative of Israel. Once we had '* disposed of the business before this Council he tried to open q new avenues of bickeriLclg instead of answering the one simple question which has been put to him over and over again here in this Council ever since 17 Fkrch 1978. It so happens that it was the representative of KutJait who asked the question: is his country or is it not prepared to withdraw fxxn Lebamm and to stop intervening in Lebanese affairs? Therefore I shall mt be dram, nor shall 1 i --cur patience by answering what has been said, I nrerely ~axrk to once more that the business before this Council wx.s a resoltiion concerning peace in solxt;h Lebanon, That resolution has been atipted and. we refuse to be drawn imt~ any debate which is alien to the matter on the agenda of this meeting, The rxding mse at 7,40 p.m.