UNITED NATIONS: LIBYA, ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA IN STORMY DEBATE AFTER ISRAEL'S CREDENTIALS ARE ACCEPTED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
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UNITED NATIONS: LIBYA, ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA IN STORMY DEBATE AFTER ISRAEL'S CREDENTIALS ARE ACCEPTED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
- Title: UNITED NATIONS: LIBYA, ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA IN STORMY DEBATE AFTER ISRAEL'S CREDENTIALS ARE ACCEPTED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
- Date: 2nd October 1975
- Summary: 1. SCU Libyan delegate Kikha speaking in Arabic 0.19 2. CU Israeli delegate Herzog speaking 1.20 3. SV Saudi Arabian Ambassador Barro speaking 2.26 TRANSCRIPT: HERZOG: "I can only reiterate that Israel has embarked on the road of negotiation in an endeavour to achieve peace with all our neighbours and to bring a solution with honour for all sides to out strife-torn area. We will not be deflected in any way from this, our purpose, by malicious rhetoric and purposeless diatribe. As for the remarks made by the Libyan delegate when making reservations as to Israel's membership of the United Nations, I reject with all the emphasis at my command this unwarranted statement which contributes nothing to the dignity of the world body, and strikes at the very roots of its existence. (HEREZOG): I note with satisfaction that world opinion as expressed at the various international meetings in Stockholm, in western Europe, in Kampaka and in Lime, has rejected this move, conscious of the dangers to the future existence of the United Nations arising there from." BARRO: "God is no discriminator, to choose one people and say they are above others. Not did Allah, not God Almighty -- as I said to none other than one of your representatives, Mr. Abha Eban -- that God is not in the real-estate business, to distribute land to one people and withhold it from others. I don't know how you communicated with God almighty to say, yes, he gave you Palestine. Then show us the title deed, as I said and repeat, with the seal therein. You British and American -- since when did God give you a power-of-attorney to transfer the land that was fully populated, because you British (did) in the days of Balfour." Initials CL/2315 TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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