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58/125 GA

58
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Draft symbol A/58/L.48
Adopted symbol 58/125
UN Document 58/125 ↗

Vote Consensus — A/58/PV.75 Dec. 17, 2003

Speeches following this vote (7) may include explanations of vote
Mr. Hamzehei (Islamic Republic of Iran)
My delegation would like to express its reservation on those parts of the report contained in document A/58/625 which may be construed as recognition of Israel.
The President
The General Assembly will now proceed to consider draft resolution A/58/L.48. I give the floor to the representative of Malaysia to introduce the draft resolution.
Mr. Zainuddin (Malaysia)
My delegation has the honour to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, a draft resolution entitled “Representation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”, as contained in document A/58/L.48 dated 15 December 2003. This draft resolution was originally sponsored by 24 delegations: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Comoros, Cuba, Djibouti, Indonesia, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Libyan…
The President
I shall now call on those representatives who wish to speak in exercise of the right of reply. May I remind members that, in accordance with General Assembly decision 34/401, statements in exercise of the right of reply are limited to 10 minutes for the first intervention and to five minutes for the second intervention and should be made by delegations from their seats.
Mr. Mekel (Israel)
Israel would like to express its firm opposition to the latest attempt by the Palestinians to further their political campaign against Israel. In past years, the frequent and annual abuse of the credentials-approval procedure by the Palestinians has been roundly rejected by an overwhelming number of States, but the draft resolution before us today is even more damaging and far-reaching than any …
Mr. Al-Kidwa (State of Palestine)
At the outset, we have to admit that we did not quite understand the nature of the last statement made by the Israeli representative. We could not grasp the meaning of the right of reply because we did not know to what it was intended to reply. In any case, we believe also that the Israeli representative was not listening to the points raised in the introduction of the draft resolution by the rep…
The President
In view of the statement made earlier by the representative of Malaysia on behalf of the sponsors of draft resolution A/58/L.48, the General Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of agenda item 3.
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