IAEA General Conference – Delegates’ Credentials – Letter from Sudan

Forty-sixth regular session

Item 23 of the agenda

(GC(46)/19)

EXAMINATION OF DELEGATES' CREDENTIALS

STATEMENT OF ARAB DELEGATIONS CONCERNING THEIR

RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE CREDENTIALS SUBMITTED BY THE

ISRAELI DELEGATION TO THE FORTY-SIXTH REGULAR SESSION

OF THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE IN VIENNA

Sir,

We enclose herewith the statement of those delegations of Arab States which are included in the attached list and which are participating in the forty-sixth regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, currently being held in Vienna, concerning their reservations about the credentials of the Israeli delegation to the General Conference with the request that it be included in the Conference' report and classified as an official document of the Conference.

The Chairman of the Credentials Committee of the

General Conference of the International Atomic

Energy Agency

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Statement of Arab delegations concerning their reservations

about the credentials submitted by the Israeli delegation

to the forty-sixth regular session of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna

The undersigned delegations of the Arab States, members of the League of Arab States participating in this Conference, wish to express their reservations about the credentials submitted by the Israeli delegation for the following reasons:

(1) Israel has annexed the city of Jerusalem, regarding it as its capital in spite of the relevant United Nations resolutions and in particular Security Council resolutions 252, 267, 271, 298, 465, 476 and 478 adopted in various years and General Assembly resolution A/RES/35/169(E) of 15 December 1980, which determined that all legislative and administrative measures taken after the occupation of the city of Jerusalem were null and void and unlawful, and in which the General Assembly caned upon all States, specialized agencies and other international organizations to disregard any measure contravening the provisions of that resolution.

You will notice that, in spite of the provisions of the above-mentioned resolution, the credentials of the delegation of Israel have been issued from occupied Jerusalem;

(2) Israel has annexed the Syrian Arab Golan area and refused to implement the Security Council and General Assembly resolutions relating to the annulment of the annexation measures.

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Names of Arab States signing the Statement concerning

their reservations about the credentials of the Israeli delegation

to the forty-sixth regular session of the IAEA General Conference

held in Vienna from 16 to 20 September 2002

Yemen

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Kuwait

Morocco

Lebanon

Syrian Arab Republic

Tunisia

Algeria

United Arab Emirates

Iraq