Situation in the OPT – Letter from CEIRPP Chairman

Letter dated 3 April 1989 from the Chairman of the Committee

on the exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian

People addressed to the Secretary-General

     In my capacity as Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People I wish to draw your attention to the enclosed excerpt from the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988 issued by the United States Department of State, which contains information on the human rights situation in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967. In view of the importance of this information, the Committee, at its 162nd meeting, held on 10 March 1989, decided to request that it be issued as an official document of the General Assembly, under items 39 and 78 of the provisional list, and of the Security Council.   I therefore have the honour to convey the Committee's request.

(Signed) Absa Claude DIALLO

Chairman

Committee on the Exercise

of the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

ANNEX

COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN

RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 1988

R E P O R T S

SUBMITTED TO THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

U.S. SENATE

AND

COMMlTTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

by the

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 116(d) AND 502B(b) OF THE

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961, AS AMENDED

FEBRUARY  1989

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations and

Foreign Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives

respectively

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

90-641        WASHINGTON: 1989

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* A/44/50/Rev.l.