{"id":179746,"date":"1992-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1992-03-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=179746"},"modified":"2021-10-20T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:39:11","slug":"auto-insert-179746","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-179746\/","title":{"rendered":"CEIRPP meeting – Summary record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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COMMITTEE ON THE EXERCISE OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS<\/p><\/div>\n
OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE<\/p><\/div>\n
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SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 186th MEETING<\/p><\/div>\n
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Held at Headquarters, New York,<\/p><\/div>\n
on Wednesday, 18 March 1992, at 3 p.m.<\/p><\/div>\n
Chairman<\/u>: Mr. CISSE (Senegal)<\/p><\/div>\n CONTENTS<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Adoption of the agenda<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Draft programme of work for 1992<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Report on the United Nations Asian Seminar and NGO Symposium on the Question of Palestine held in Nicosia from 20 to 24 January 1992<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Report on the preparatory meeting for the North American NGO Symposium on the Question of Palestine held in New York on 3 and 4 February 1992 <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Other matters<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/u><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n This record is subject to correction.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Corrections should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent within one week of the date of this document<\/u> to the Chief, Official Records Editing Section, Department of Conference Services, room DC2-750, 2 Âé¶¹APP Plaza. <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Any corrections to the record of this meeting and of other meetings will be issued in a corrigendum. <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n The meeting was called to order at 3.20 p.m<\/u>.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n STATEMENT BY THE UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 1. Mr. JONAH<\/u> (Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs), noting that in<\/p><\/div>\n his new capacity he was responsible, inter alia<\/u>, for matters relating to the<\/p><\/div>\n situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine, said that the<\/p><\/div>\n Âé¶¹APP had entered a period in which it would be increasingly able to<\/p><\/div>\n act with the effectiveness envisaged by its founders. The end of the cold<\/p><\/div>\n war, the growing trend towards democratization and self-determination of<\/p><\/div>\n peoples, and the recognition that some problems were of a global scope, had<\/p><\/div>\n made cooperation among Âé¶¹APP Members more necessary and possible than<\/p><\/div>\n ever before.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 2. Since its inception, the Committee had sought to mobilize the United<\/p><\/div>\n Nations system to promote the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and<\/p><\/div>\n had, with the support of the Division for Palestinian Rights, successfully<\/p><\/div>\n placed the question on the international agenda. The problem remained,<\/p><\/div>\n however, one of the most enduring and difficult issues with which the<\/p><\/div>\n international community had to contend. The peace process initiated in Madrid<\/p><\/div>\n presented a historic opportunity to facilitate a comprehensive and peaceful<\/p><\/div>\n settlement. The Committee could count on his full support in its future<\/p><\/div>\n activities.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 3. The agenda was adopted<\/u>.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n DRAFT PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR 1992 (A\/AC.183\/1992\/CRP.1\/Rev.1)<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 4. Mr. CAMILLERI<\/u> (Malta), Rapporteur, introducing the Committee's draft<\/p><\/div>\n programme of work for 1992 (A\/AC.183\/1992\/CRP.1\/Rev.1), said that section I of<\/p><\/div>\n the document was procedural, summarizing the relevant resolutions adopted at<\/p><\/div>\n the previous session of the General Assembly. Section II recommended as<\/p><\/div>\n priority issues for 1992 the human rights violations in the occupied territory<\/p><\/div>\n and the need for international protection of the Palestinians living there;<\/p><\/div>\n the adverse impact of Israeli settlements on Palestinian rights and the<\/p><\/div>\n achievement of peace; the deteriorating economic situation of the Palestinian<\/p><\/div>\n people and the need for international development assistance in the occupied<\/p><\/div>\n Palestinian territory; and the promotion of peace and the convening of an<\/p><\/div>\n International Peace Conference on the Middle East under the auspices of the<\/p><\/div>\n Âé¶¹APP.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 5. Section III dealt with activities of the Committee and the Division for<\/p><\/div>\n Palestinian Rights. It was recommended in section III.A that the Committee<\/p><\/div>\n should, while continuing its past activities, develop its role further, by<\/p><\/div>\n holding consultations with interested Member States and following up on<\/p><\/div>\n political developments and on the situation in the occupied territory through<\/p><\/div>\n ongoing contacts throughout the Âé¶¹APP system. It was also<\/p><\/div>\n recommended that the Committee should organize in-depth, single-theme meetings<\/p><\/div>\n on each priority issue, attracting high-level participation that could be<\/p><\/div>\n funded from the regular budget. In sections III.B and C, details were given<\/p><\/div>\n of the regional seminars and NGO symposia sponsored by the Committee and of<\/p><\/div>\n the 1992 NGO international meeting. With regard to the North American NGO<\/p><\/div>\n Symposium (para. 16), he informed the Committee that the response to inquiries<\/p><\/div>\n as to whether it could be held in Washington had not been positive and that it<\/p><\/div>\n would therefore be held in New York. Section III.D of the draft programme of<\/p><\/div>\n work concerned studies and publications undertaken or planned by the Division<\/p><\/div>\n for Palestinian Rights. Section III.E urged the establishment of the<\/p><\/div>\n computer-based information system as soon as possible. Lastly, section III.F<\/p><\/div>\n proposed the same programme for the International Day of Solidarity with the<\/p><\/div>\n Palestinian People as in 1991.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 6. Since the draft programme of work had been the object of considerable<\/p><\/div>\n consultations, he hoped that the Committee could proceed to adopt it.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 7. Mr. JAIN<\/u> (India) said that paragraph 16 of the draft programme of work<\/p><\/div>\n needed revision because it referred to the possibility that the North American<\/p><\/div>\n NGO Symposium might be held in Washington. He proposed that the revised text<\/p><\/div>\n should, however, refer to the fact that such a possibility had been explored.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 8. Mr. BUDAI<\/u> (Hungary), referring to paragraph 7 of the draft programme of<\/p><\/div>\n work, said that his delegation fully agreed with its thrust, including the<\/p><\/div>\n reference to an international consensus on the essential principles for a<\/p><\/div>\n solution to the question of Palestine. However, Hungary did not agree that,<\/p><\/div>\n as stated in the last sentence, that consensus had been reaffirmed most<\/p><\/div>\n recently in General Assembly resolution <\/span>46\/75<\/a>. The resolution in question had<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n not been adopted unanimously but with many abstentions, including that of<\/p><\/div>\n Hungary. He therefore proposed amending the final sentence, replacing the<\/p><\/div>\n words "that consensus was" by the words "those essential principles were".<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 9. Mrs. KHOURY<\/u> (Observer for Palestine) and Mr. ALARCON de QUESADA<\/u> (Cuba)<\/p><\/div>\n said that they would not object to such an amendment.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 10. The CHAIRMAN<\/u> said that, if he heard no objection, he would take it that<\/p><\/div>\n the Committee wished to adopt the draft programme of work in document<\/p><\/div>\n A\/AC.183\/1992\/CRP.1\/Rev.1, as amended and on the understanding that it would<\/p><\/div>\n be revised as proposed.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 11. It was so decided<\/u>.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n REPORT ON THE UNITED NATIONS ASIAN SEMINAR AND NGO SYMPOSIUM ON THE QUESTION<\/p><\/div>\n OF PALESTINE HELD IN NICOSIA FROM 20 TO 24 JANUARY 1992<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 12. The CHAIRMAN<\/u> said that the Âé¶¹APP Asian Seminar and NGO Symposium<\/p><\/div>\n on the Question of Palestine, held at Nicosia from 20 to 24 January 1992, had<\/p><\/div>\n been attended by representatives of 22 countries, over 40 representatives of<\/p><\/div>\n non-governmental organizations and 42 media representatives. A total of seven<\/p><\/div>\n meetings had been held, and 20 eminent experts from Asia and the United<\/p><\/div>\n States, as well as Palestinians and Israelis, had presented papers at three<\/p><\/div>\n round tables on the following three topics: "A just settlement of the<\/p><\/div>\n question of Palestine", "Safety and protection of the Palestinian people in<\/p><\/div>\n the occupied Palestinian territory" and "International and regional issues".<\/p><\/div>\n Three workshops had been organized for the non-governmental organizations on<\/p><\/div>\n the general theme of "Developing solidarity activities by Israeli and other<\/p><\/div>\n organizations with Palestinian women, physicians, health workers and students".<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 13. The report on the Seminar and NGO Symposium would be issued as a<\/p><\/div>\n publication of the Division for Palestinian Rights. In addition, the<\/p><\/div>\n conclusions and recommendations and the NGO Declaration would be annexed to<\/p><\/div>\n the report of the Committee to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh<\/p><\/div>\n session.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 14. The deliberations of the Seminar and NGO Symposium had been marked by a<\/p><\/div>\n sense of urgency and determination to work together to develop concrete ideas<\/p><\/div>\n for the future. The discussions had been substantive and productive and had<\/p><\/div>\n covered a wide range of topics, thereby contributing to a better understanding<\/p><\/div>\n of the positions of the parties to the conflict and helping to identify<\/p><\/div>\n important issues for further discussions.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 15. The participants had welcomed the convening of the Peace Conference on<\/p><\/div>\n the Middle East in Madrid on 30 October 1991 and the subsequent bilateral<\/p><\/div>\n talks between the parties in Washington, and expressed their earnest hope that<\/p><\/div>\n the talks would lead to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the<\/p><\/div>\n region. They had noted that that process had the support of the parties<\/p><\/div>\n concerned and that it was based on Security Council resolutions <\/span>242 (1967)<\/a> and<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n