A solution to the Mideast conflict must take into account Israel’s right to exist as on independent state and the right of the Palestinian people to elf-determination, Paul Peters, Luxembourg’s Ambassador to the UN, speaking on behalf of the one members of the European Economic Community (EEC), told the General Assembly today.
Peters, addressing the second session of the debate on the Mideast, which opened here yesterday, said that in the EEC’s view a variety of approaches can be taken to reach peace in the Mideast. The Camp David accords, he claimed, here one positive step in that direction although they had not yet borne all the fruit expected of them.
The EEC, Peters declared, does not approve of Israel’s settlement policy and could not accept any change in the status of Jerusalem. He criticized Israel’s unilateral action recently proclaiming united Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, also addressing the Assembly today, sharply criticized Israel and the United States for the “problems” the Mideast. He called for Israeli withdrawal from all territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and the establishment of a Palestinian state. He added, however, that all states in the area had a right to security in the context of international agreements.
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