  {"id":178149,"date":"1982-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=178149"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:37:20","slug":"auto-insert-178149","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-178149\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation in Lebanon &#8211; NAM communique"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/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;\">LETTER DATED 11 JUNE&nbsp;&nbsp;1982 FROM THE CHARGE D&#39;AFFAIRES&nbsp;&nbsp;A.I. OF<\/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;\">THE PERMANENT MISSION OF CUBA TO THE UNITED NATIONS <\/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;\">ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I have the honor to request you to circulate the annexed document,&nbsp;&nbsp;a press communique from the Co-ordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Countries,&nbsp;&nbsp;as an official document of the General Assembly,&nbsp;&nbsp;under&nbsp;&nbsp;items 31 and 34 of the preliminary list,&nbsp;&nbsp;and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/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=\"50%\" 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;\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;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;\"><u>Signed<\/u>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rolando LOPEZ DEL AMO<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Ambassador Deputy Permanent Representative<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" 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;\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" 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;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">ANNEX <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Communique issued on 11 June 1982 by the Co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Countries met in an urgent session at United Nations Headquarters in New York on June 11, 1982, to consider Israeli aggression against Lebanon.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau heard statements on the situation in Lebanon.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bureau recalled&nbsp;&nbsp;decisions of the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau held in Havana,&nbsp;&nbsp;from May 31st to June 5th, 1982.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau strongly condemned Israel for its acts of aggression against Lebanon&#39;s sovereignty and territorial integrity in violation of the Charter of the United Nations.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau further condemned Israel for its declared aim of eliminating the Palestinian people, particularly those now living in Lebanese territory.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau recalled Security Council Resolution 509 (1982)which, <u>inter alia<\/u>: demands that Israel withdraw all its military forces forthwith and unconditionally to the internationally recognized boundaries of Lebanon and demands that all parties observe strictly the terms of paragraph 1 of resolution 508 (1982) which called on them to cease immediately and simultaneously all military activities within Lebanon and across the Lebanese-Israeli border, and the Bureau welcomed the positive response from the Government of Lebanon and from the Palestine Liberation Organization.&nbsp;&nbsp;It condemned Israel for its refusal 51ÁÔÆæ, both resolutions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau further condemned Israel for its unwarranted and unjustified attacks upon members of UNIFIL in flagrant violation of Security Council Resolutions 425, 426, and subsequent relevant resolutions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau called once again for the strict respect of Lebanon&#39;s sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity and political independence within its internationally recognized boundaries.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau also expressed solidarity with the government and people of Lebanon and supported the efforts of the constitutional authorities to re-establish peace and security in Lebanon and their right to reactivate the armistice agreement of 1949.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau reiterated its solidarity with and full support for the Palestinian people under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in its struggle to obtain and exercise its inalienable rights of self-determination, National independence and sovereignty and the establishment of its sovereign independent State in Palestine.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bureau expressed its solidarity with and support for the heroic resistance of the Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian peoples against the Israeli aggression.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau called upon the international community and, in particular, those member States who are in a position to do so, to discharge their international responsibilities by bringing pressure to bear upon Israel to make it comply with Security Council resolution 509 (1982).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Bureau expressed its profound grief at the tragic 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