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

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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-FIFTH 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-fifth regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency being held in Vienna from 17 to 21 September 2001, concerning their reservations about the credentials of the Israeli delegation of 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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GC(45)/30

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Statement of Arab delegations concerning their reservations about the credentials

submitted by the Israeli delegation to the forty-fifth 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.

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Names of Arab States signing the Statement concerning their reservations about

the credentials of the Israeli delegation to the forty-fifth regular session

of the IAEA General Conference held in Vienna

from 17 to 21 September 2001

Yemen

Oman

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Syrian Arab Republic

Morocco

Lebanon

Iraq

Kuwait

Sudan

Saudi Arabia

Algeria

United Arab Emirates