S/8590 SC
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Russia
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United Kingdom
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China
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France
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Pakistan
Vote Recorded Vote — S/PV.1426
Speeches following this vote (9)
The President
I shall now call on those representatives who wish to speak in explanation of their votes after the vote.
Mr. Solano Lopez
The Council has just reached a decision on the draft resolution submitted by Pakistan and Senegal /S/8590/Aev.2]. I would like briefly to explain the reasons which led my delegation to vote in favour of it.
56. At the Council’s 1417th meeting, on 27 April, I made the following statement:
“Over the many years during which the Middle East question has been discussed in the United Nations, Paragua…
Mr. Borch
My delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution on Jerusalem, now adopted by this Council. Having done so, I wish to stress that we deeply deplore the fact that the genuine efforts made during recent weeks with a view to producing a compromise text which would gather the unanimous support of the Council did not succeed. Already, this lack of unanimity in itself leads us to doubt the politic…
Mr. El-Farra
My delegation expresses its satisfaction at the adoption of the resolution concerning the illegal measures adopted by the Israelis in Jerusalem. This resolution reaffirms the two resolutions adopted by the Assembly in July and deplores the failure of Israel to comply with them. It reaffirms the established international principle that the acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissi…
The President
I call on the representative of Jordan in exercise of his right of reply,
Mr. El-Farra
On the question of normalcy and peace in Jerusalem, I would simply like to read to the Council a piece of information which has just come from Jerusalem. It states:
“A delegation of six well-known Palestinian Arabs of the old city of Jerusalem yesterday sent a new petition to General Odd Bull, the representative of U Thant for supervising the cease-fire, in which they support the initiatives tak…
Mr. El-Farra
Since the question is one of freedom and of will, the will of the people as expressed here is to get rid of the occupier and to ask the conqueror to move out. So, if there is this kind of willingness on the part of the Israelis to give them the right to express their will, this is their will, and the Israelis should show their desire to heed the will of the people and get out of the occupied area…
The President
There are no further speakers in our debate, but before I adjourn the meeting I would exercise my own right to speak, not as President but on behalf of the UNITED KINGDOM.
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112. I said first that my Government stands firmly by the statements we have made and the votes we have cast both in the Assembly and in this Council on the question of the future of Jerusalem. I said tha…
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