Mideast situation/Palestine question – SecCo list of items – Letter from Tunisia

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SECURITY COUNCIL

Fifty-second session Fifty-third year

Agenda items 36, 37 and 87

QUESTION OF PALESTINE

THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO

  INVESTIGATE ISRAELI PRACTICES AFFECTING

  THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN

  PEOPLE AND OTHER ARABS OF THE OCCUPIED

  TERRITORIES

Letter dated 24 February 1998 from the Permanent Representative of

Tunisia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

In my capacity as Chairman of the Arab Group for February 1998 and on behalf of the members of the League of Arab States, I am writing with reference to the summary statement by the Secretary-General on matters of which the Security Council is seized and on the stage reached in their consideration (document S/1998/44 of 9 January 1998).  Pursuant to a decision taken by the Arab Group, I have the honour to request you to retain the items listed hereunder in the agenda of the Security Council.

1. The Palestine question.

12. Arrangements for the proposed Peace Conference on the Middle East.

17. The Middle East problem, including the Palestinian question.

18. Request by the Libyan Arab Republic and Pakistan for consideration of the serious situation arising from recent developments in the occupied Arab territories (S/12017).

20. The question of the exercise by the Palestinian people of its inalienable rights.

I should be grateful if you would have this letter circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda items 36, 37 and 87, and of the Security Council.

(Signed)  Ali HACHANI          

Permanent Representative   

of Tunisia to the United Nations

Chairman of the Arab Group   

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