The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) agreed yesterday to invite representatives or Arab terrorist organizations to participate in the World Conference on Population to be held in Bucharest this summer. ECOSOC approved by consensus a resolution to extend the invitation to terrorist groups that are “recognized by the Organization for African Unity (OAU) and/or the Arab League.” The United States. Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Australia expressed reservations about the resolution but supported it nevertheless. Israel, which is not a member of ECOSOC, denounced the resolution.
Israeli Ambassador Jacob Doron who participated in yesterday’s meeting as an observer, declared that Israel’s “total opposition” to the participation “of the Palestine Liberation Organization or any other such Arab group in the conference in any capacity” is based on the ruthless disregard of the terrorist organizations toward human life. Referring to the recent massacre at Kiryat Shemona and other terrorist outrages, Ambassador Doron said:
“It is indeed a sad sign of our times and one of the worst aspects of the existing situation in the United Nations, that representatives of such groups, who have acquired world-wide notoriety by their actions of indiscriminate terror against civilians, should be invited to participate in any international fathering under the auspices of the United Nations, and in a World Population Conference in particular.”
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