Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg declared last night that a resolution introduced by the Arab states at the current session of the UN General Assembly, calling for sanctions against Israel if it does not withdraw from territories taken during the Six-Day War, is “unconstitutional under the United Nations Charter.”
Addressing a dinner of the Baltimore District of the Zionist Organization of America at which he was honored, Goldberg who was U.S. Ambassador to the UN during the Johnson administration, said that the pending resolution is “at variance” with Resolution 242. “The General Assembly is without competence to change a decision of the Security Council, the principal organ of the United Nations,” he said.
Goldberg, who was presented the Baltimore ZOA District’s Justice Louis D. Brandeis award, stated that, in his view, a “prerequisite” to peace “is for the United States to continue to make it explicitly clear to the Soviet Union that in our own national interest we will not permit another Czechoslovakian tragedy to engulf Israel.”
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