CANADA: PALESTINIAN ISSUE PREVENTS UNITED NATIONS HABITAT CONFERENCE FROM REACHING UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT ON FINAL DECLARATION.

Record ID: 1061760

  • Title: CANADA: PALESTINIAN ISSUE PREVENTS UNITED NATIONS HABITAT CONFERENCE FROM REACHING UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT ON FINAL DECLARATION.
  • Date: 14th June 1976
  • Summary: 1. TV PAN OVER Delegates during vote showing Syrian, Arab Republic PAN OVER TO Thailand followed by Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia 0.19 2. SV Danson of Canada (Chairman) speaking in English 0.38 3. CU Zambian delegate speaking in English 1.05 4. TV Dr. Rasheed Riffai of Iraq speaking in Arabic 1.47 5. SV Henrique Penalosa of Colombia speaking in Spanish 2.06 6. TV PAN FROM Standing ovation TO penalosa embracing Danson 2.22 "Syrian Arab Republic! Syrian Arab Republic....yes. Thailand! Thailand! Thailand...yes. Togo! Togo...yes. Trinidad and Tobago! Trinidad and Tobago...yes. Tunisia! Tunisia... yes." "In favour...89. Opposed...15. Abstentions....ten. The Vancouver Declaration on human settlements in adopted." (applause) "All we can say is that it is profoundly regrettable that it was not possible for all of us to reach a compromise so that we could have adopted these principles contained in the declaration by unanimity, which would have take us a step forward towards uniting our world which has already seen enough wars and could do without wars. Thank you very much, Mr. President." The western counties who voted against the declaration because of the veiled reference to Zionism as a form of racism, included the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Israel. Initials BB/0230 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th June 1976 13:00
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  • Location: VANCOUVER, CANADA
  • Country: Canada
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