Situation in the OPT – Letter from Iraq

REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO PEACE

DECLARATION OF THE ASSEMBLY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE

ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY ON THE AERIAL AND NAVAL MILITARY ATTACK

AGAINST THE SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

BY THE PRESENT UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION IN APRIL 1986

EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNITED NATIONS INSTRUMENTS

ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF BODIES

ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUCH INSTRUMENTS

POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES INVOLVING YOUTH

CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT

ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PRINCIPLE OF

PERIODIC AND GENUINE ELECTIONS

DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF GOOD-NEIGHBOURLINESS BETWEEN STATES

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*A/45/50

Letter dated 16 May 1980 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq

to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Upon instructions from my Government, I have the honour to refer to document A/45/175-S/21199 issued on 21 March 1990 and containing a letter from the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to which is annexed an extract from Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1989 published by the Department of State of the United States of America, which contains information on the situation concerning human rights in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by the Israeli occupation forces.

In spite of the importance of this information, it exposes but a few aspects of the barbarous crimes being committed daily by the occupation forces against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, in violation of all human rights principles, international laws and United Nations resolutions.

I should therefore be grateful if the above-mentioned document could be considered an official document of the General Assembly under items 12, 22, 39, 92, 99, 103, 104, 112, 113 and 142 of the preliminary list.

(Signed)  Abdul Amir A. AL-ANBARI

Ambassador Permanent Representative