Israeli sources reacted today with mixed feelings of both satisfaction and disappointment over the culmination of the United Nations Security Council’s three-week debate on Israel’s complaint against Syria, charging the Damascus Government with responsibility for last month’s pattern of terrorist raids into Israel.
Noting that 10 of the Security Council’s members, including the United States, Britain and France, voted in favor of the final resolution facing the Council — with the draft failing of adoption only because of a Soviet veto — Israeli sources pointed with satisfaction to the steadfast leadership shown on this issue by the United States, and the fact that, of the Council’s three African members, only one — the Moslem state of Mali — voted in the negative alongside the USSR. The fact that the resolution itself was” luke-warm” in its reprimand of Syria was attributed to the limitations imposed by the international situation. The Soviet veto came as no surprise here, in view of Moscow’s disruptive influence in the Middle East.
(At the United Nations Security Council, on Friday, the Soviet exercise of its veto defeated a six-power resolution which “invited” Syria to strengthen measures to prevent terrorist raids into Israel in the future. Co-sponsors of the resolution were Argentina, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Uganda. Voting with these six were the United States, Britain, France and Uruguay. Backing the USSR’s decisive negative vote were Jordan, Mali and Bulgaria. Nationalist China abstained.)
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