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22 General Assembly-Thirty-seventh Session 8. Endorses the proposal that a meeting be held between representatives of organizations of the United Nations sys­ tem and representatives of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations; 9. Welcomes the invitation by the League of Arab States that the Meeting be held at the present headquarters of the League at Tunis and requests the Secretary-General to pro­ vide whatever assistance will be necessary to ensure the successful organization of the Meeting; 10. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the League of Arab States, to ensure that the Meeting referred to in paragraph 9 above is held not later than 30 June 1983; 11. Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thiriy-eignth session on the state of co-operation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States; 12. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled "Co-operation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States''. 70th plenary meeting 16 November 1982 37/18. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nu­ clear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non­ proliferation of nuclear weapons and interna­ tional peace and security The General Assembly, Having considered the item entitled ' 'Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system con­ cerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non­ proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security", Recalling the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 28 Taking note also of the relevant resolution of the Inter­ national Atomic Energy Agency and the Commission on Human Rights, Viewing with deep concern Israel's refusal to comply with those resolutions, particularly Security Council resolution 487 (1981) of 19 June 1981, Gravely alarmed by the dangerous escalation of Israel's acts of aggression in the region, Gravely concerned that Israel continues to maintain its threats to repeat such attacks against nuclear installations, Reiterating its alarm over the information and evidence regarding the acquisition and development of nuclear weap­ ons by Israel, Recalling the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Or­ der, 29 the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States30 and the Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Techno­ logical Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind,3t 28 A/37/365 and Add.l-S/15320 and Add.l. For the printed text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Thirty-seventh Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1982, documents S/15320 and Add. I. 29 Resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-Vn. 30 Resolution 3281 (XXIX). 31 Resolution 3384 (XXX). Affirming the need to ensure against the repetition of such an attack on nuclear facilities by Israel or any other State, 1. Condemns Israel's refusal to implement resolution 487 (1981), unanimously adopted by the Security Council; 2. Strongly condemns Israel for the escalation of its acts of aggression in the region; 3. Condemns Israel's threats to repeat such attacks, which would gravely endanger international peace and security; 4. Demands that Israel withdraw forthwith its officially declared threat to repeat its armed attack against nuclear facilities; 5. Considers the Israeli act of aggression to be a vio­ lation and a denial of the inalienable sovereign right of States to scientific and technological progress for achieving social and economic development and raising the standards of peoples and the dignity of the human person, as well as a violation and a denial of inalienable human rights and the sovereign right of States to scientific and technological development; 6. Requests the Security Council to consider the nec­ essary measures to deter Israel from repeating such an attack on nuclear facilities; 7. Calls for the continuation of the consideration, at the international level, of legal measures to prohibit armed attacks against nuclear facilities, and threats thereof as a contribution to promoting and ensuring the safe develop­ ment of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes; 8. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, with the assistance of a group of experts, 32 a comprehensive study on the consequences of the Israeli armed attack against the Iraqi nuclear installations devoted to peaceful purposes, and to submit that study to the General Assembly at its thirty­ eighth session; 9. Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution; 10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled '' Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system con­ cerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non­ proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security" . 70th plenary meeting 16 November 1982 37/19. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency The General Assembly. Having received the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the General Assembly for the year 1981, 33 Taking note of the statement by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency of 18 November 1982, 34 which provides additional information on devel­ opments in the Agency's activities during 1982, Recognizing the importance of the work of and the rel­ evance for the International Atomic Energy Agency to pro­ mote further the application of nuclear energy for peaceful 32 Subsequently named Group of Experts on the Consequences of the Israeli Armed Attack against the Iraqi Nuclear Installations. 33 International Atomic Energy Agency, The Annual Report for 1981 (Austria, July 1982); transmitted to the members of the General Assembly by a note of the Secretary-General (A/37/382 and Corr. I). 34 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-seventh Session, Plenary Meetings. 71st meeting, paras. 2-44.

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