Mideast situation/Palestine question – SecCo meeting – Letter from OIC

Letter dated 9 October 2003 from the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

In my capacity as Chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Group in New York, I have the honour to refer to the letter dated 9 October 2003 (S/2003/973) addressed to you by Mr. Fayssal Mekdad, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, in his capacity as the Chairman of the Arab Group for the month of October 2003, and convey to you the support of the OIC Group to the request made by the Arab Group to convene an immediate meeting of the Security Council to consider the grave and ongoing violations of international law by Israel, in particular the construction of its expansionist wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

I should be grateful if you would arrange for the present letter to be published as a document of the Security Council

(Signed ) M. Javad Zarif
Ambassador
Permanent Representative

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