Israel expressed today “profound regret” over Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s statement condemning ### Israeli operation against Iraq’s nuclear reactor.
In a statement issued here by Yehuda Blum, ### Ambassador to the United Nations, Israel ###“the Secretary General has once again ### arbitrarily prejudge a matter of ex### complexity.”
### charged that Waldheim “has again ex### the limits of his office as the chief adminis### officer of an organization in which states ###senting a diversity of interests are members. ### he has given up any semblance of the impar### required by his office.”
Blum recalled in his statement that Waldheim ### to condemn the Iraqi invasion of Iran last ### and did not denounce”the repeated calls for ### (holy war) against Israel made by Saudi ###bia and other Arab and non-Arab members of ### United Nations.”
In fact, Blum noted, Waldheim attended the ###mmit of the Islamic conference held in Taif this January “in full knowledge that that call would be repeated and endorsed by those participating.”
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