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(Unofficial electronic version) 		GC(43)/31
28 September 1999

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Original: ARABIC

Forty-third regular session
Agenda item 28
(GC(43)/27)

EXAMINATION OF DELEGATES' CREDENTIALS

STATEMENT OF ARAB DELEGATIONS CONCERNING THEIR RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE CREDENTIALS SUBMITTED BY THE ISRAELI DELEGATION TO THE FORTY-THIRD REGULAR SESSION OF THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE IN VIENNA

Sir,

We enclose herewith the statement of the delegations of Arab States whose signatures are on the attached list and which are participating in the forty-third regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency to be held in Vienna from 27 September to 1 October 1999 concerning their reservations about the credentials of the Israeli delegation to the General Conference with the request that it be included in the Conference’s report and be treated as an official document of the Conference.

  (Signed): Faisal Al-Ghais
Dean of the Arab Diplomatic Corps
Ambassador of Kuwait


The Chairman of the Credentials Committee of the
General Conference of the International Atomic
Energy Agency

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Statement of Arab delegations concerning their reservations about the credentials submitted by the Israeli delegation to the forty-third regular session of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna

The undersigned delegations of the Arab States, members of the League of Arab States participating in this Conference, wish to express their reservations about the credentials submitted by the Israeli delegation for the following reasons:

  1. Israel has annexed the city of Jerusalem, regarding it as its capital in spite of the relevant United Nations resolutions and in particular Security Council resolutions 252, 267, 271, 298, 465, 476 and 478 adopted in various years and General Assembly resolution A/RES/35/169(E) of 15 December 1980, which determined that all legislative and administrative measures taken after the occupation of the city of Jerusalem were null and void and unlawful, and in which the General Assembly called upon all States, specialized agencies and other international organizations to disregard any measure contravening the provisions of that resolution.

    You will notice that, in spite of the provisions of the above-mentioned resolution, the credentials of the delegation of Israel have been issued from occupied Jerusalem.

  2. Israel has annexed the Syrian Arab Golan area and refused to implement the Security Council and General Assembly resolutions relating to the annulment of the annexation measures. It continues to occupy part of South Lebanon and Western Beqaa, and to refuse to apply Security Council resolution 425 on this subject.

Vienna, 15 September 1999

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Names of Arab States signing the Statement concerning their reservations about the credentials of the Israeli delegation to the forty-third regular session of the IAEA General Conference held in Vienna
from 27 September to 1 October 1999

Name of State Head of delegation Signature
Kuwait Faisal Rashed Al-Ghais (signed)
Sudan Abdel Ghaffar Abdel
Rahman Hassan		 (signed)
Yemen Nageeb Khalil Abdo Ibrahim (signed)
Morocco Abderrahim Benmoussa (signed)
United Arab Emirates Ahmad Rashed Al-Dosari (signed)
Saudi Arabia Omar Mohammed Kurdi (signed)
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Ibrahim Al-Besbas (signed)
Lebanon William Habib
Caroline Ziadé		 (signed)
Iraq Faez Hussain Ali Al-Berkdar (signed)
Syrian Arab Republic Riad Siage (signed)
Tunisia Nabil Ammar (signed)
Algeria Mokhtar Reguieg (signed)

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