Yehuda Blum, Israel’s UN Ambassador, today informed the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Ole Algard of Norway, that Israel would not permit the entry and would not cooperate with a Security Council commission set up to investigate Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
Algard announced today the appointment of Bolivia, Portugal and Zambia to the three-member commission which was established by a Security Council resolution on March 22 “to examine the situation relating to the settlements in the occupied Arab territories since 1967, including Jerusalem.”
Blum told the Council President that Israel opposes the commission because it was set up “with the aim of subverting the on-going peace process in the Mideast.” Israel’s position was also motivated, Blum declared, by the sobering experience it had with previous “fact-finding” commissions in the Mideast.
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