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…
It is true that when the Iraq-Iran war first broke out, in September of last year, the Se- curity Council held a number of meetings which consid- ered Iraq's aggression for territorial gains, and the Secre- tary-General even appointed a special representative t:.> offer his good offices in the searc…
Mr. President, you have ap- pealed to us, but I do not think I am in need of any appeal. I am in the midst of a statement which is being constantly disturbed and obstructed by the uncivilized be- haviour of a certain representative-who will now wish to raise a point of order on my use of the word "u…
And now to the other side of the Iraqi coin: Iraq's external behaviour. In September of last year, Iraq launched a blatant war of aggression against Iran. That war has continued unabated for the last 14 months, even if it has tended to drop from the headlines and has never made the agenda of the Ass…
It is gratifying to see that the rank of obstruction has now been upgraded. But I should like to remind the representative of Iraq that we are deal- ing with the situation in the Middle East. As far as I know, his country is part of the Middle East-not of the Arab East, as he calls it-and the situat…
As I said, according to Law- rence Minard, writing in Forbes Magazine on 18 August 1980, "President Saddam Hussein has emerged as one of the most brutally repressi...e rulers in recent history." Representatives will recall that not long before the pub-
53. And that was by no means the end of this t…
I should like to thank the repre- sentative of the Palestinian Arab State of Jordan for his remark.
23. On the east flank of the Middle East we have Iraq-
As we all know, the agenda item before us is "The situation in the Middle East". I can readily understand the agitation of the representative of Iraq. She will hear more about her country, which is one of the countries in the Middle East. I have not quoted yet, so I do not know what quotations she w…
By the end of the current debate the Assembly will have completed its annual double- feature performance on the items entitled, in the jargon of the United Nations, the "Question of Palestine" and "The situation in the Middle East". These two features are not played at the behest of a clamouring pub…
Mr. President, we are at the stage of explanations of vote. This is not supposed to be the time to exercise the right of reply. I should be grateful if you would instruct the Permanent Representative of the Palestinian Arab State of Jordan accordingly.
Iraq's initiative, which gave birth to the report of the group of experts, must be seen against the background of Iraq's own quest for nuclear capability.
215. I have already provided a detailed description of Iraq's attempt to go nuclear in my statements in the Se- curity Council, tb,; plenary mee…
Last year, at the thirty-fifth ses- sion of the General Assembly, Israel joined the consensus in support of resolution 35/174 despite certain reserva- tions entemined by us. We did so in order to demonstrate goodwill and support for the proposal to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle …
Yet again the General Assembly is going through its perennial exercises on what is called here the question of Palestine. These exercises have long since been emptied of meaningful content. They have be- come ritualistic. And for all the rigmarole involved in adopting a steadily increasing number of…
The Assembly has .surely had enough of the Iraqi delegation's bluster. By their own ad- mission, their Government will not answer the questions which are ringing in the Assembly's ears, because they cannot, or rather dare not. Despite protestations to the contrary, no one here has been fooled. Every…
Last night I confronted the Iraqi representative with a series of questions to which Israel had been demanding aqswers ever since Iraq indig- nantly brought its bruised feelings over the loss of its re- actor before the international community. With what he apparently believed was a great show of sa…
The voting on the draft resolu- tion before us this morning will long reverberate beyond the confines of this Hall, for the issues at stake raise· questions of great moral import. The draft resolution be- fore us does not begin to do justice to those issues, for it is merely the squalid outgrowth of…
I believe that all members are now well aware of the fact that the representative of Iraq has again avoided any answers to the questions I have raised. Having been confronted with the questions that I raised, Iraq, if it were acting in good faith-which it is not, as it is displaying right now-should…
In my statement yesterday at the 52nd meeting I submitted scientific and technical data showing beyond a shadow of doubt that Iraq was bent on developing a nuclear option. I also repeated a series of questions which I had originally posed to the Foreign Minister of Iraq in the Security Council on 12…
If any evidem~e was still re- quired to the effect that Iraq was indeed benl! on politiciz- ing the item which is before us, the representative of Iraq has just provided that evi~ence.,
Mr. President, on a point of order I should like with your permission respectfully to inquire about the appropriateness of your presiding over this item. I think that representative~ will readily agree that there is something sllghlly incongruous about a de- bate being chaired by a President who com…
