INTRODUCTION
SITUATION IN ISRAEL AND STRUGGLE FOR BREAD AND PEACE.
S. Mikunis, General Secretary, Communist Party of Israel
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The reckless policy of the Ben-Gurion Government, the stand of the Israel delegation in UNO, which opposed the Soviet proposals upholding peace, have caused alarm and indignation among the popular masses. A wave of indignation swept the country after the Israel delegation in UNO voted against the Soviet motion to dissolve the so-called “Palestine Reconciliation Commission”. Experience of the past years has shown that this Commission acted and continues to act against the conclusion of a peace treaty between Israel and its neighbours—the Arab states, that it inspires sanguinary acts of provocation along the borders and conducts agitation in the neighbouring Arab countries about “Israel threat”, while in Israel it agitates about an “Arab threat”—seeking thereby to whitewash the ruling reactionary circles in Israel and in the Arab countries and to justify their policy of rearmament at the expense of the vital needs of the masses. This commission sows enmity and mistrust between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East thereby facilitating realisation of the criminal plans of imperialism according to the formula “divide and rule”
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For a Lasting Peace, For a People’s Democracy”,
No. 19 (183), Friday, May 9, 1952.
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DRAFT RESOLUTION PROPOSED BY THE USSR TO ABOLISH THE UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE CONCILIATION COMMISSION,
United Nation
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
GENERAL
A/2071
24 January 1952
ENGLISH
ORIGINAL: RUSSIAN
Sixth Session
Agenda. Item 24 (a)
Dual Distribution
PALESTINE
REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR PALESTINE
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: draft resolution
The General Assembly,
Considering that experience has shown that the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission has not coped with its allotted tasks of settling the questions at issue in Palestine between the parties,
Resolves to abolish the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission,
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DISCUSSION AND VOTE ON THE DRAFT RESOLUTION PROPOSED BY THE USSR TO ABOLISH THE UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE CONCILIATION COMMISSION,
United Nation
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
SIXTH SESSION
Official Records
365th
PLENARY MEETING
Palais de Chaillott, Paris
Saturday, 26 January 1952, at 3 p.m
CONTENTS
Palestine: (a) report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine;
(b) assistance to Palestine refugees : report of the Director of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East:
reports of the Ad Hoc Political Committee (A/2070) and the Fifth Committee
(A/2080) (concluded).. . .. 401
Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapter II) : report of the Second
Committee (A/2069)................................................ 406
President: Mr. Luis PADILLA NERVO (Mexico).
Palestine: (a) report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine ; (b) assistance to Palestine refugees : report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East: reports of the Ad Hoc Political Committee (Aj2070) and the Fifth Committee
(Aj2080) (concluded)
[Agenda item 24]
Mr. PALAMARCHUK (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) (translated from Russian) : In the discussion which took place In the Ad Hoc Political Committee the delegation of the Ukrainian SSR pointed out that the present unsettled relations between the Jewish and Arab States are a consequence of the expansionist policy of the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom with regard to the countries of the Near and Middle East. As has already been pointed out more than once, this expansionist policy of the Anglo-American bloc is determined, in the first place, by the economic importance of the area, and, in the second place, by the strategic situation of the countries of the Near and Middle East.
Much evidence has been adduced to show that, in striving to convert the countries ')f the Near and Middle East into a strong point for the aggression it is preparing under the false pretext of collective defence, the aggressive Anglo-American bloc is openly aiming at the occupation of those countries by its own armed forces. \Ve have also interest of the United States and the United Kingdom in the economy of these areas, which are rich in oil, obviously a most important strategic raw material for the future war now being prepared by the United States and the United Kingdom.
In seeking to achieve their political, strategic purposes, the United States and the United Kingdom are interfering in the internal affairs of the countries of the Middle and Near East and are preventing the settlement of disputes in Palestine. Because of this, the United Nations Conciliation Commission, consisting of the representatives of the United States, France and Turkey, has done nothing during the three years of its existence to settle the disputes between the parties in Palestine. In the Commission's report [A/1985] submitted to the sixth sessi0n of the General Assembly there is an admission that the Commission has proved unable to carry out its task.
The delegation of the Soviet Union, anxious to facilitate a settlement in the interests of the peoples of Palestine through the efforts and resources of the governments concerned, has submitted a draft resolution [A/2071] proposing the abolition of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine. If a satisfactory settlement of the Palestine problem and of the disputes between the parties is to be achieved, an end must be put, before anything else, to interference in the affairs of Palestine by the United States and the United Kingdom.
The delegation of the Ukrainian SSR therefore supports and will vote for the Soviet Union's draft resolution proposing the abolition of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, which, as everyone knows, is an instrument of Anglo-American interference in the affairs of the peoples of Palestine and the Arab States.
For the same reason, the delegation of the Ukrainian SSR will vote against draft resolution I of the Ad Hoc Political Committee on the report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, for that draft resolution would prolong the Commission's existence and hinder a settlement of the relations between Israel and the Arab States.
Mr. ZULOAGA MEJIA (Colombia) (translated from
Spanish) :
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The draft resolution was rejected by 48 votes to 6, with
2 abstentions.
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