A/36/824] GA
36
Session
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Vote Consensus — A/36/PV.100
Speeches following this vote (7)
In explaining my delegation's vote in favour of draft resolution B, which the Assembly has just adopted, I should like to point out that that resolution resulted from an admirable and obvious consensus in the working group in the summer of this year, followed by an equally realistic consensus in the Committee on Information, and then by a consensus in the Special Political Committee.
128. An ext…
The draft resolution recommended in paragraph 9 of the report is the very essence (·f what a United Nations resolution should not be. The United Nations was conceived inter alia, as "a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations"-as Article I, paragraph 4, of the Charter states. The hydroelectric project which Israel proposes to build by means of aconduit from the Mediterranean to the Dead Se.a…
The President
The representative of Israel has now spoken for IQ minutes. I request him to conclude his statement.
153. Mr._ BLUM (Israel): ... although that is perhaps too much to expect from the General Assembly, given its present composition. I should none the less like to take this opportunity of renewing and reiterating our call to Jordan to co-operate in this imaginative enterprise for the mutual benefi…
The President
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended in paragraph 9 of the Committee's report [A/36/814]. The administrative and financial implications of that draft resolution appear in the report of the Fifth Committee [A/36/826]. A recorded vote has been requested. .
The President
I now call on the representative of Jordan in exercise of the right to reply.
I should like to reply to some ofthe points just made by the represent2tive of Israel.
157. In the first place, in the opinion of my delegation his request that Jordan and Israel enter into negotiations with regard to this canal is made only with the intention of confusing the issue.
158. Whether Jordan chooses to enter into negotiations on this or any other question is a matter best left entir…
I shall be very brief. I do not wish to go into the substance of this matter because my Ambassador, in his explanation ofvote, has already done so. However, Israel remains firmly of the view there is everything to negotiate in this matter, and we renew our call to Jordan to come forward and negotiate.
The meeting rose at J2.55 p.m.
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