The board of the United. Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) adopted a resolution today that would provide financial help for the Palestine Liberation Organization. It was promptly denounced by the Israeli delegate to UNCTAD, Israel Eliashiv.
The resolution, adopted by a vote of 63-13 with 14 abstentions, was submitted on behalf of the Group of 77, an alignment of Third World nations. A similar resolution was adopted at the Manila conference last summer when it was opposed by Australia, New Zealand and Norway. This time, those countries abstained.
Eliashiv said: “It is no secret that parts of that resolution as well as of the resolution before us were initiated and inspired by the so-called PLO …. We strongly oppose any kind of assistance which might be implied to the PLO, on organization which makes no secret of its avowed objectives, set forth in its covenant, of destroying Israel, a member state of the United Nations.”
The resolution states that the United Nations system, including the UN Development Plan, should, during the Third Development Decode, mobilize adequate resources for providing assistance to national liberation movements recognized by regional intergovernmental organizations and the people under colonial domination and foreign occupation.
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