{"id":182624,"date":"1976-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=182624"},"modified":"2021-10-20T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T23:01:59","slug":"auto-insert-182624","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-182624\/","title":{"rendered":"CEIRPP meeting – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Office of Public Information<\/p><\/div>\n

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Committee on Rights of                                 Press Release GA\/PAL\/6<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Palestinian People                                    4 March 1976<\/p><\/div>\n

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4th Meeting (AM)<\/p><\/div>\n

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COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS HEARS CHAIRMAN'S REPORT ON MEETING FACILITIES;<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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TO BEGIN GENERAL DEBATE NEXT TUESDAY WITH STATEMENT BY PLO<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the<\/p><\/div>\n

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Palestinian People heard a report by the Chairman this morning on the results<\/p><\/div>\n

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of his meeting with the Secretary-General concerning the provision of<\/p><\/div>\n

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summary records, additional Secretariat support and meeting facilities for<\/p><\/div>\n

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the Committee's work.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Committee will begin its substantive work when it meets again at<\/p><\/div>\n

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10:30 a.m. Tuesday, 9 March, with the observer of the Palestine Liberation<\/p><\/div>\n

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Organization (PLO) listed as the first speaker in the general debate.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Chairman, Medoune Fall (Senegal), said that at the Committee's<\/p><\/div>\n

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request, he had met on Tuesday, 2 March, with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim<\/p><\/div>\n

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and the Under-Secretary-General for Conference Services, Bohdan Lewandowski,<\/p><\/div>\n

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and a not entirely satisfactory compromise had been reached in regard to<\/p><\/div>\n

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summary records of the Committee's meetings.  Verbatim transcripts made from<\/p><\/div>\n

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sound recordings of the meetings would be made available to the Committee<\/p><\/div>\n

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in English and French.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     On the proposal of the Chairman the Committee agreed to examine the<\/p><\/div>\n

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transcript it would receive of today's meeting and to determine at its<\/p><\/div>\n

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next meeting whether the transcript was satisfactory.  If not, the matter<\/p><\/div>\n

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would be taken up again with the Secretary-General.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Committee had been informed by its Secretary at its meeting on<\/p><\/div>\n

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Monday, 1 March, that under General Assembly resolution 2538 (XXIV) of 11<\/p><\/div>\n

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December 1969 summary records were not provided for newly established<\/p><\/div>\n

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subsidiary bodies of the General Assembly unless they were specifically<\/p><\/div>\n

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authorized in the enabling resolution.  In the resolution under which the<\/p><\/div>\n

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Committee was established [<\/span>3376 (XXX)<\/a> of 10 November 1976], the Assembly<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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requested the Secretary-General "to provide the Committee with all the<\/p><\/div>\n

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necessary facilities for the performance of its tasks".<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Chairman said that in his conversation with the Secretary-General<\/p><\/div>\n

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he had not raised the question of the possibility of calling a special session<\/p><\/div>\n

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of the General Assembly to request summary records because he had not felt<\/p><\/div>\n

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that all members of the Committee had agreed that things should be taken<\/p><\/div>\n

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that far.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The question of the frequency of the Committee's meetings had been<\/p><\/div>\n

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resolved satisfactorily, the Chairman added, and it was believed that the<\/p><\/div>\n

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Committee could hold a minimum of one meeting a day.  If emergency meetings<\/p><\/div>\n

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of the Security Council were called, however, the Secretary-General would<\/p><\/div>\n

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ask the Committee to be flexible in that respect.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Chairman said he had also discussed staffing problems, with the<\/p><\/div>\n

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Secretary-General in view of the difficulties which the Committee had<\/p><\/div>\n

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encountered, and had asked that the Committee secretariat be enlarged.  The<\/p><\/div>\n

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Secretary-General had said he would consider the matter.  If the Committee<\/p><\/div>\n

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was without summary records, an enlarged secretariat could produce a summary<\/p><\/div>\n

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of the Committee's discussions, the Chairman observed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     In the discussion this morning on summary records, several members of<\/p><\/div>\n

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the Committee expressed disatisfaction with the arrangements made.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     Among the comments made, Rachid Driss (Tunisia) said the proposed<\/p><\/div>\n

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solution was much more burdensome, more costly and less useful than summary<\/p><\/div>\n

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records.  Under the guide of rationalization, decisions were taken which<\/p><\/div>\n

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hampered the work of the Organization in order to save money.  Rikhi Jaipal<\/p><\/div>\n

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(India) said that without summary records the Committee could not discharge<\/p><\/div>\n

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its tasks with assurance or any sense of responsibility.  In his view the<\/p><\/div>\n

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Committee should decide formally that it should have be provided with summary<\/p><\/div>\n

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records rather than leaving that decision to the Secretariat.  The question<\/p><\/div>\n

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of finances was irrelevant in the context of the importance of the work of<\/p><\/div>\n

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the Committee, which in any case was not going to be self-perpetuating.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     In the discussion on documentation, the Committee Secretary, Yogaraj<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yogasundram, told the delegates that the compilation of United Nations<\/p><\/div>\n

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resolutions on the Palestinian question, requested by the Committee last week,<\/p><\/div>\n

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would be available on Monday, 8 March.    The rest of the requested<\/p><\/div>\n

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documentation, concerning the history of the problem and its development,<\/p><\/div>\n

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would be available by Friday, 12 March.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     Future Work of Committee<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Chairman informed the Committee that the PLO had accepted the<\/p><\/div>\n

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invitation to participate in the work of the Committee as an observer and<\/p><\/div>\n

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was now present.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     The Committee also agreed without objection to observer status for<\/p><\/div>\n

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the representatives of Syria, Libya and Egypt.  The Chairman said that in<\/p><\/div>\n

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accordance with the decision taken on 27 February, he had asked the Secretary-<\/p><\/div>\n

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General to inform all Member States — particularly the countries concerned<\/p><\/div>\n

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with the Middle East problem and the members of the Security Council, especial<\/p><\/div>\n

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the permanent members of the Council — that they would be welcome to appear<\/p><\/div>\n

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before the Committee and make known their views on the Palestinian question.<\/p><\/div>\n

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     Zehdi L. Terzi, the observer from PLO, in informing the Committee that<\/p><\/div>\n

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his delegation would be prepared to make its statement on 9 March, inquired<\/p><\/div>\n

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whether the Committee would do its work at the United Nations or would consider sending a fact-finding mission to the area of conflict.  Several delegations expressed the view that a decision on the matter would be premature.  Mowaffak Allaf (Syria) said his delegation did not question the right of the Committee to send a visiting mission to the area but entered a reservation on the use of the term "fact finding" since the facts in the issue were already well established.<\/p><\/div>\n

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