YUGOSLAVIA: PRESIDENT TITO CALLS FOR ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORIES IN SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT

Record ID: 399373

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: PRESIDENT TITO CALLS FOR ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORIES IN SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT
  • Date: 1st April 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV ASSEMBLY BUILDING 0.06 2. SV INT. DELEGATES APPLAUD AS TITO WALKS TO ROSTRUM 0.32 3. LV ZOOM IN (SAME SCENE) TITO SPEAKS (SOF) 1.17 4. LV TITO CONTINUES 1.23 Initials AJC/VS/MR/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th April 1970 13:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVATGUMQYTLDBNKP3YS0XA9IB2D
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT TITO OF YUGOSLAVIA HAS CONDEMNED ISRAELI AS A PROVOCATION TO PEACE LOVING PUBLIC OPINION IN THE WORLD. HE CHARGED THAT ISRAEL HAS OPEN ANNEXIONIST ASPIRATIONS AND HAS COMPLETELY IGNORED THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE MIDDLE EAST.

    IN A WIDE-RANGING SPEECH TO THE YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY (MARCH 31), HIS FIRST IN SEVEN YEARS, THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR URGENT MEASURES TO ACHIEVES A MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT, A SETTLEMENT WHICH HE SAID COULD NOT BE REACHED WITHOUT ISRAEL'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE TERRITORIES IT HAD OCCUPIED.

    PRESIDENT TITO ALSO WARNED OF THE DANGERS OF THE SITUATION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA. HE BLAMED WHAT HE CALLED FOREIGN REACTIONARY CIRCLES FOR INTERFERENCE IN CAMBODIA. ON VIETNAM, HE SAID THE WAR COULD ONLY BE SOLVED BY UNCONDITIONAL WITHDRAWAL OF UNITED STATES TROOPS.

    DISCUSSING AFRICA, THE YUGOSLAV LEADER SAID SOUTH AFRICA WAS INCREASINGLY BECOMING AN IMPERIALIST, REACTIONARY COUNTRY WITH WHAT HE TERMED GREAT PRETENSIONS TOWARDS HER PROGRESSIVE NEIGHBOURS. HE SPOKE AGAINST MINORITY RACIST AND COLONIAL ??? IN AFRICA AND SAID THAT CERTAIN CIRCLES IN THE WEST ASSIST THEM IN THEIR IMPERIALIST PENETRATION.

    PRESIDENT TITO, REPORTING ON HIS RECENT AFRICAN TOUR, SAID THAT ALL THE LEADERS OF THE COUNTRIES HE VISITED WERE IN FAVOUR OF CONVENING A THIRD NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BEFORE THE JUBILEE SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS.
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