  {"id":177917,"date":"1988-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=177917"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:35:03","slug":"auto-insert-177917","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-177917\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine question\/PNC Declaration of Independence &#8211; Letter from Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"63%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">GENERAL ASSEMBLY<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Forty-third session<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Agenda items 37 and 40<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">QUESTION OF PALESTINE<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"36%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">SECURITY COUNCIL<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Forty-third year<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Letter dated 28 November 1988 from the Permanent Representative of<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Malta to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the statement issued by the Government of Malta on 16 November 1988 concerning the decision by the Palestine National Council, at its extraordinary session in Algiers on 15 November 1988, to proclaim the establishment of an independent Palestinian State.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;The Maltese Government:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;1. Reaffirms its recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;2. Welcomes the declaration of independence made in Algiers on 15 November 1988 and acknowledges this declaration as a true and genuine expression of the right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;3. Considers the said declaration of independence as an opportunity for a negotiated peaceful settlement which should not be missed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;4. Welcomes the endorsement of resolution 242 as a very positive step towards a just and peaceful settlement&quot;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;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 arrange for the text of this letter to be circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda items 37 and 40, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:280px;\">\n\t\t\t\t(<u>Signed<\/u>) Dr. Alexander BORG OLIVIER\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:280px;\">\n\t\t\t\tAmbassador\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:280px;\">\n\t\t\t\tPermanent Representative\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENERAL ASSEMBLY Forty-third session Agenda items 37 and 40 QUESTION OF PALESTINE THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST SECURITY COUNCIL Forty-third year Letter dated 28 November 1988 from the Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the statement issued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-177917\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[969],"document-category":[2841,1338],"document-source":[1365,1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,1749],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-177917","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-malta","document-category-letter","document-category-statement","document-source-general-assembly","document-source-security-council","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/177917","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\/177917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=177917"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=177917"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=177917"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=177917"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=177917"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=177917"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=177917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}