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A/34/757] GA

‘Israeli nuclear arma- ment,

34
Session
97
Yes
10
No
38
Abstentions
Draft symbol A/34/757]
P5 Positions
Russia ✓ United States ✗ United Kingdom ~ China ✓ France ~

Vote Recorded Vote — A/34/PV.97 Dec. 11, 1979

— Abstain (38)
✗ No (10)
✓ Yes (97)
Speeches following this vote (13) may include explanations of vote
The President
A number of representatives have asked to be allowed to exercise the right of reply. the time used for this purpose. I should also like to remind them of another decision by the General Assembly that any subsequent statement should be limited to five minutes. I intend to apply those decisions strictly.
Mr. Pojani (Albania)
The delegation of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania expressed its viewpoint on disarmament problems in the course of the debate that took place in the First Committee during October and November last year. Now that the pertinent resciutions have been adopted by the General Assembly and with your permission, Mr. President, the Albanian delegation considers it necessary to present briefly …
Mr. Nuseibeh (Jordan)
I wish to express at the outset my delegation’s deep appreciation ta_all the countries which have shown such incisive awareness of what we are talking about. But I must also confess that I am totally baffled by the attitude of some of the countries which have either voted against the draft resolution or abstained in the vote. 144. I think that not all of us realize that we are literally playing …
Mr. Bafi (Iraq)
We are now certain that Israel possesses the nuclear weapon and that it chose that weapon as being essential for the execution of its aggressive and expansionist policy—a policy of occupation of Palestine and of the territories of three neighbouring Arab States, in contravention of the resolutions of the United Nations which call for the withdrawal of Israel from those territories. We need not re…
Mr. Burwin (Libya)
1 should like to apologize for speaking at this late hour, but I think that it is necessary to express certain truths clearly. 160. Co-operation between Libya and Pakistan in the nuclear field is devoted to peaceful activities and Libya has signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 161. Qn the other hand, co-operation between Israel and South Africa in the nuclear field and…
Mr. Blum (Israel)
It is not surprising that the representative of Iraq, leading the Arab rejection:st troika—Libya, Syria and Iraq—has bellowed forth allegations of an Israeli arms build-up. What better way exists to divert members’ attention from the fact that $48 billion has been spent on arms by Arab States since 1973? The most dramatic build-up, according to the New York Times of 4 March 1979, has been by thr…
Mr. Naik (Pakistan)
In the statement that the representative of Israel made earlier, before the adoptioa of the resolution on agenda item [21, he referred to what he described as a ‘‘nuclear axis’? between Iraq, Libya and Pakistan. I have asked to be allowed to spe in order to reject categorically this baseless assertion. It is evidently a clumsy attempt on the part of the Israeli representative to divert the attent…
Mr. Nuseibeh (Jordan)
I started my statement in the exercise of my right of reply by saying that the subject matter before us far transcends politics or regional conflicts. The representative of occupied Palestine has tried to divert the attention of the General Assembly to irrelevant issues and, even on that score, he was totally inaccurate. 181. According to all credible reports which we, and i am sure my colleague…
Mr. Bafi (Iraq)
The allegations of the Zionist entity, in its continuing attempt to include in the debate subjects which are not part of the item—Israeli nuclear armament—are well own. 186. The international community has condemned the Zionist entity because it has repressed the Palestinian people and prevented it from returning to its homeland, despite the United Nations resolutions recognizing its right to …
Mr. Blum
The Iraqi representative has again attempted to divert attention from his country’s frenetic armaments race. The Iraqi army has since 1973 undergone the most impressive expansion of all the Arab armies, and now has a total of 11 combat divisions. Though Iraq has virtually unlimited access to Soviet weaponry, it too has shown a tendency to diversify its sources of supply in order to acquire Weste…
Mr. Glaiel (Syrian Arab Republic)
I greatly admire the President’s patience and the patience of this Assembly. The representative of the Zionist entity has asked three times to be allowed to speak and this has meant that we have lost one hour on a single draft resolution, as much time as we spent on all the other draft resolutions on disarmament that we have adopted this morning. I believe therefore that I am entitled to speak f…
Mr. Nuseibeh (Jordan)
On a point of order, I think I am justified in asking the Chair’s indulgence in order to reply to the extremely abusive language that was uttered by the representative of occupied Palestine.
The President
The rules are the rules, and our rules provide that on any given item, representatives can only exercise the right of reply twice. You have done so, as has the representative of Israel, I am not in a position to allow any representative who has spoken twice in exercise of his right of reply to do so again. I apologize to the representative of Jordan. He knows the respect I have for him, but I mus…
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