  {"id":178521,"date":"1988-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=178521"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:41:21","slug":"auto-insert-178521","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-178521\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation in the OPT &#8211; Message from Qaddafi &#8211; Letter from Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<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;\"><strong>DOCUMENT S\/19431*<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\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;\"><strong>Letter dated 15 January 1988 from the representative<\/strong><\/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;\"><strong>of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the Secretary-General<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>[Original: Arabic]<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>[15 January 1988]<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;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 honour to transmit to you herewith the text of a message addressed to you by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi concerning the situation currently prevailing in the occupied territories and the arrests, expulsions and killings to which the children of the Palestinian people are being subjected.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;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 should be grateful if you would have the text of this letter distributed as a document of the General Assembly and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>(Signed)<\/i>&nbsp;Ali Sunni MUNTASSER<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>Charge d&#39;affaires a.i.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>of the Permanent Mission of<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>to the United Nations<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">* Circulated under the double symbol A\/43\/89-S\/19431.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"page-break-before:always; clear:both\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\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;\"><strong>MESSAGE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;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>The hideous crimes &#8211; arrests, expulsions and killings &#8211; and the blatant human rights violations to which unarmed Palestinian women, old people and children are currently being subjected in the occupied territories are more barbaric than the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis and have reached the point where we are forced to reconsider post-war culture and its definition of crimes against humanity.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;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>The world demands that we take firm action to put an end to the tragedy of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, and this can only be done by adopting sanctions to punish the Israeli criminals for their heinous crimes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Muammar QADAFFI<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOCUMENT S\/19431* Letter dated 15 January 1988 from the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the Secretary-General [Original: Arabic] [15 January 1988] I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the text of a message addressed to you by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi concerning the situation currently prevailing in the occupied territories and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-178521\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[5609],"document-category":[2841,2621],"document-source":[1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2033,2209,1741],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-178521","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-libya","document-category-letter","document-category-message","document-source-security-council","document-subject-children","document-subject-expulsions-and-deportations","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/178521","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\/178521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=178521"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=178521"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=178521"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=178521"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=178521"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=178521"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=178521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}