IAEA General Conference – Israeli Delegation’s credentials – Letter from Libya

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EXAMINATION OF DELEGATES’ CREDENTIALS

STATEMENT OF ARAB DELEGATIONS CONCERNING THEIR

RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE CREDENTIALS SUBMITTED BY

THE ISRAELI DELEGATION TO THE FORTY-FOURTH REGULAR

SESSION OF THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE IN VIENNA

Sir,

We enclose herewith the statement of the delegations of Arab States whose signatures are on the attached list and which are participating in the forty-fourth regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to be held in Vienna from 18 to 22 September 2000, concerning their reservations about the credentials of the Israeli delegation to the General Conference with the request that it be included in the Conference’s report and treated as an official document of the Conference.

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Statement of Arab delegations concerning their reservations about the credentials

submitted by the Israeli delegation to the forty-fourth 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 called 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.

Vienna, 18 September 2000