Premier David Ben Gurion today urged strengthening the power and prestige of the United Nations, and emphasized that such a development would be in the positive interests of all people.
Mr. Ben Gurion, who addressed newspapermen on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the UN’s adoption of the decision to partition Palestine and establish a Jewish State, called for the fostering of world peace. Such peace, he said, would enable the Jews of all the world to come in contact with each other.
In comment on the UN Security Council’s resolution censuring Israel for the Kibya incident, the Premier declared: “It is easy to find the negative aspects in such a world organization; however, we should judge it not on the present situation, but according to its historic task of becoming a bastion for peace and bringing justice to the whole world.” The UN’s mission is a human necessity, he underlined, adding: “We should do everything to foster the United Nations authority and efficiency.”
Israel, the Premier stated, wants peace with all nations without looking into their internal regimes. He pointed out that 85 percent of the world’s Jews were scattered through many countries outside Israel, and that Israel could not escape the fact that only a part of the Jews are free to live as Jews and to maintain contact with Israel.
“In this respect the UN is again important,” he asserted, “as a means of increasing responsibility and of imposing peace and justice in the world. When better international circumstances exist there is hope that the Jews who are now isolated will be able to live as Jews and maintain contact with other communities.”
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