UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MIDDLE EAST DEBATE ENDS WITH MAJORITY STATEMENT CALLING ON ISRAEL TO COMPLY WITH GENEVA CONVENTION.

Record ID: 1061831

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MIDDLE EAST DEBATE ENDS WITH MAJORITY STATEMENT CALLING ON ISRAEL TO COMPLY WITH GENEVA CONVENTION.
  • Date: 27th May 1976
  • Summary: READER TO CAMERA: 1. GV INTERIOR OF United Nations 0.11 2. SV Spokesman addressing council 1.09 3. GV INTERIOR OF United Nations 1.17 4. SV Israeli spokesman 2.13 TRANSCRIPT: SHARAF: "How can they defend a dictated occupation of an area more than three times the size of Israel and occupied by more than a million Arab people who own and live in this area. How can they defend Israel's official policy of establishing settlements - and they are not security settlements - security cannot be achieved by planting settlements in somebody else's territory. This is an invitation to continued conflict. How can the supporters of Israel retain this official policy of establishing settlements in the occupied areas and manning them and encouraging massive demographic changes. How can they defend the repressive and (indistinct) conduct of the occupying forces against the defenceless and unarmed school children protesters." HERZOG: "Solution to our problem in the Middle East, Mr. President, lies not at this table, lies not in resolutions and statements, lies not in debates or in stories one over another and in maligning and accusing each other. All these have their purpose, but it is not peace. Again and again we shall be summoned by the Arab delegates to this table, to satisfy on each occasion, as on this occasion, the specific political idiosyncracies of various Arab parties. For how long, for what purpose. The road to peace lies only via the negotiating table and as long as the member states of the United Nations do not make this crystal clear to the Arab states, we shall continue to listen to this useless rhetoric at this table, month after month while the tragedy in the Middle East continues. Thank you Mr. President." Initials TELERECORDING This film is serviced with English speech by Mr. Sharaf and Mr. Herzog. Transcripts appear below. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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