{"id":185540,"date":"1987-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=185540"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:55:26","slug":"auto-insert-185540","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185540\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country &#8211; Letter from Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:center;padding-top:20px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;color:#000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">LETTER DATED 12 OCTOBER 1987 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:15px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In my capacity as Chairman of the Arab Group for the month of October 1987 and on behalf of the States members of that Group, I have the honour to inform you of the following:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The members of the Arab Group at the United Nations, having taken cognizance of Bill No. 940 of the United States Senate amending the Law concerning the powers of accreditation of Ministries of Foreign Affairs, wish to state the following:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bill constitutes a hostile act against the Palestinian people, which has designated the Palestine Liberation Organization as its sole legitimate representative, and is contrary to the inalienable rights of that people.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bill also runs counter to the process of establishing a just and lasting peace in the Middle East at a time when many parties, including the United Nations and its Secretary-General, are working towards the convening of ah international peace conference on the Middle East.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bill violates the right to freedom of expression enjoyed by the Arab parties and by Arab-Americans, and infringes the rights of all-Arab residents.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If adopted, the Bill will have effects which will be in flagrant contradiction with the Headquarters Agreement and, by that token, with the rules of international law and the rights of the United Nations, of States Members and generally of members having observer status.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Arab Group will on no account agree to the violation of the status of the United Nations, of States Members including members enjoying observer status, or, as in this particular case, of the Palestine Liberation Organization. To that end, the Arab Group will take all necessary steps within the framework of the United Nations system, and appeals to all States to do likewise in the name of lawfulness and international law. It furthermore requests, the Committee on Relations with the Host Country, in particular, to take the necessary steps.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In view of the foregoing, the Arab Group requests the Secretary-General to approach the parties concerned in order to clarify the position of the United Nations with a view to ensuring observance of the Headquarters Agreement and of the Organization&#39;s rights and to avoid the unfortunate consequences which might result from such a situation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I should be grateful if you would distribute the text of this letter as a document of the General Assembly under agenda item 136, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:20px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:160px;\">\n\t\t\t\t(Signed) Ali TREIKI\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:160px;\">\n\t\t\t\tPermanent Representative of the Socialist People&#39;s\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:160px;\">\n\t\t\t\tLibyan Arab Jamahiriya Chairman of the Arab Group\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:35px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">87-25362 23170 (E)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LETTER DATED 12 OCTOBER 1987 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL In my capacity as Chairman of the Arab Group for the month of October 1987 and on behalf of the States members of that Group, I have the honour to inform you of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185540\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[5609],"document-category":[2841],"document-source":[1365,1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,5405],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-185540","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-libya","document-category-letter","document-source-general-assembly","document-source-security-council","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-plo-palestine","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/185540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/185540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=185540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}