The Security Council will meet here Monday to discuss Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar’s report on the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The report, requested by the Security Council in its Dec. 22 resolution condemning Israel’s for its handling of the riots in the territories, will be made public here Friday and will include the recommendations of Undersecretary General Marrack Goulding, who has just returned from a visit to Israel and the territories.
According to diplomats here, several Arab foreign ministers are planning to attend the Security Council meeting next week, at the conclusion of an Arab League meeting in Tunis this weekend. This will be the fifth Security Council meeting on the Mideast situation since mid-December and the fourth on the unrest in the territories.
According to sources here, Perez de Cuellar will suggest in his report that the Security Council undertake a new peace initiative to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The report also suggests, according to the sources, that the United Nations send observers to the territories, to oversee the treatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli government. Israel is opposed to the idea.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, rejected out of hand last Friday a proposal made by the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Aleksander Belonogov, that the United Nations send observers to the territories.
“It is not acceptable to us. The U.N. does not intervene in internal security matters,” Netanyahu said. “Would Great Britain agree that the U.N. would send troops to Northern Ireland to supervise the peace there?”
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