UNITED NATIONS: 29TH SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDS WITH DEBATE ON MIDDLE EAST AS 30TH SESSION CONVENES. ON MIDDLE EAST AS 30TH SESSION CONVENES.

Record ID: 337092

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS: 29TH SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDS WITH DEBATE ON MIDDLE EAST AS 30TH SESSION CONVENES. ON MIDDLE EAST AS 30TH SESSION CONVENES.
  • Date: 17th September 1975
  • Summary: 1. GV INTERIOR ZOOM TO U.N. President Bouteflika speaking in French 0.16 2. CU Syrian representative condemns Israel in Arabic 0.40 3. SV Delegates listen 0.42 4. SV Israeli delegate speaks in English 1.20 TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 4: ISRAELI DELEGATE: "Mr. President, the delegation of Israel rejects the unwarranted and ill-conceived intervention
  • Embargoed: 2nd October 1975 13:00
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  • Location: UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA636EN2VR084S9MTDF2XTILJ90
  • Story Text: The 29th Session of the United Nations General Assembly ended on Tuesday (16 September) with a challenge to Israel's continued membership in the world body.

    The 29th Session completed its work on the same day that the 30th Session began. The 29th Session had carried over some unfinished business from its meeting last year.

    Session President Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika presided over the debate in which Syrian delegate Mouffak Allaf said "the Zionist regime" of Israel was "racist, aggressive and ... violates the essential conditions for qualifications of membership .. within our organisation".

    He said Israel did not comply with the U.N. charter and should be banished.

    Israeli delegate Chaim Herzog called the criticism "unwarranted and ill-conceived". But he said nothing would dissuade Israel from "seeking accord with its neighbours and moving along the road towards peace".

    The debate at the closing of the 29th session foreshadows the possibility of a drive in the new 30th Session to strip Israel of its U.N. membership. It also suggested the hurdles ahead in negotiations between Israel and Syria over occupied territories in the Middle East.

    Syria's attack was prompted by the decision without a vote to accept the credentials of all the countries participating in the Special Session, including Israel.
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