Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Chaim Herzog, sent a letter today to Secretary General Kurt Waldheim protesting a Syrian letter of last week, which called in effect for the destruction of Israel. The Syrian letter, issued on the occasion of African Liberation Day and sent to Waldheim and to all UN representatives, stated that Syria was committed to struggle until Zionism was “finally eliminated.”
In his letter to Waldheim, Herzog wrote that Israel regretted Syria’s undisguised exploitation of African Liberation Day for the purpose of pursuing its unrelenting political warfare against Israel. The Syrian letter, Herzog continued, “gives the lie to the fulsome professions of peaceful intentions voiced recently by Syrian leaders. It also undermines the efforts currently being made to advance the process of negotiation toward genuine peace in the Mideast.” The Israeli envoy reiterated Israel’s readiness to conduct peace negotiations with Syria at any time on the basis of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
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