  {"id":176290,"date":"1981-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=176290"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:17:53","slug":"auto-insert-176290","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-176290\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Dead-Med canal project &#8211; Letter from CEIRPP Acting Chairman"},"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;\"><u>Letter dated 7 April 198l from the Acting Chairman of the Committee<\/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>&nbsp;on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People <\/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>addressed, to the Secretary-General<\/u><\/p><\/div>\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;\">In my capacity as Acting Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, I have the honour to bring to your attention reports published recently in the press which show, once again, that the Israeli Government is determined to pursue a policy which can only heighten the tensions in the Middle East.<\/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;\">The most recent of these reports concerns the Israeli Government&#39;s announced intention of building a canal across the Gaza Strip linking the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean.&nbsp;&nbsp;This project, which is fraught with consequences for the future and the status of the Gaza Strip, constitutes a violation of Âé¶¹APP resolutions and a flagrant challenge to world public opinion.&nbsp;&nbsp;It should perhaps be added that this time Israel does not even claim, as it often has in the past, to be undertaking this project for reasons of security.<\/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;\">No less disturbing is the report that elections cannot be held in the West Bank, undoubtedly because the results would be unfavourable to Israel.<\/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;\">It is clear that Israel intends to pursue a policy of colonization based on outmoded concepts and in violation of international law and Âé¶¹APP resolutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Israel&#39;s persistence in following such a policy can only stand in the way of a just and lasting solution of the problems of the Middle East and endanger international peace and security.&nbsp;&nbsp;That is a source of grave concern to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which believes that measures should be taken as a matter of urgency to put an end to the illegal occupation of the Arab and Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem.<\/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 this letter to be circulated. as a document of the General Assembly, under item 31 of the preliminary list, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"570px\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"246\" 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=\"324\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;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;\">(Signed)&nbsp;&nbsp;Massamba SARRE<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Acting Chairman of the Committee<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">on the Exercise of the Inalienable<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Rights of the Palestinian People<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">___________<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\"><i>*<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/38E1ECEAF0A7BFA105256601004D596D.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">A\/36\/50<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p 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