| Date | 1 December 1998 |
|---|---|
| Started | 10:00 |
| Ended | 13:10 |
Instructions
Click on the Link to this button beside the speech or paragraph to expand it to a useful panel containing:
- The date of the speech
- A link to the original page of the PDF document
- A URL that can be used in most blogs
- A structured Citation template suitable for use in a Wikipedia article.
Those last two rows ("URL" and "wiki") use textboxes to hide most of the text.
To access this text, right-click in the textbox with your mouse and choose "Select All", then right-click again and choose "Copy". Now you can right-click into another window and choose "Paste" to get the text.
Agenda item 39 (continued)
Question of Palestine
Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (A/53/35)
Report of the Secretary-General (A/53/652)
Draft resolutions (A/53/L.48, A/53/L.49, A/53/L.50, A/53/L.51)
Mr. Pham Quang Vinh (Viet Nam)
It is my honour to address the Assembly on agenda item 39, entitled "Question of Palestine".
The United Nations is today commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, a day that reminds us of the plight of a people that has been suffering for so long.
It is half a century since the Palestinian people was dispossessed of its homes and lands, which calls for strengthened solidarity with, and support for, the Palestinian people.
The question of Palestine is at the core of the situation in the Middle East. While the Middle East peace process is ongoing, it has proved to be a long and arduous one.
My delegation appreciates the report of the Secretary-General on the question of Palestine and on the situation in the Middle East contained in document A/53/652.
We welcome the progress achieved since the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements and, in particular, the recent signing of the Wye River Memorandum between Palestine and Israel as a promising development. We hope that this Memorandum will complement the agreements reached between the parties and enable them to move further forward in their negotiations, including on the issue of permanent status.
We note with concern, however, that difficulties still continue. It is therefore imperative that the agreements already reached between the parties concerned be implemented in good faith and the commitments made be upheld. As the peace process goes on, this will build confidence and create an environment conducive to further progress.
The General Assembly and the Security Council have considered the situation in the occupied Arab territories on a number of occasions during the course of this year and last year, as a matter of urgency. The issue of settlements has been considered to be an obstacle to the peace process that must be overcome.
The Security Council met on this subject in June this year and later issued a presidential statement on 13 July 1998 (S/PRST/1998/21).
The General Assembly convened its tenth emergency special session last year and adopted resolutions ES-10/2, ES-10/3, ES-10/4 and ES-10/5, in calling for, inter alia, the convening of a Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
From this rostrum, my delegation reaffirms further its strong and consistent support for, and solidarity with, the Palestinian people in their just cause. The question of Palestine requires a comprehensive, just and lasting solution. This solution must ensure the restoration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to return and to statehood.
We hope that the recent progress will give impetus to the peace process and that the agreements reached will be fully implemented. The parties concerned should overcome the existing obstacles to achieve a just and durable peace in the Middle East on the basis of ensuring the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, as well as the legitimate interests of the parties concerned.
At this juncture, the United Nations will continue to play an important role, especially in the mobilization of international support for and assistance to the Palestinian people.
In this regard, we commend in particular the contributions made by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. We also highlight the role of the Department of Public Information and the Division for Palestinian Rights, which should be further strengthened.
My delegation welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 52/250 on the participation of Palestine in the work of the United Nations. We earnestly look forward to the day when Palestine will enjoy full membership in this Organization.
Mr. Mesdoua (Algeria)
--> -->
| <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> | Python 2.6.6: /usr/bin/python Tue May 21 11:14:23 2013 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in |
| 194 if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 195 pathpart = os.getenv("PATH_INFO") |
| 196 maintrunk(pathpart) |
| 197 |
| 198 |
| maintrunk = <function maintrunk>, pathpart = '/generalassembly_53/meeting_74' |
| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in maintrunk(pathpart='/generalassembly_53/meeting_74') |
| 131 elif pagefunc == "gameeting": |
| 132 LogIncomingDB(hmap["docid"], hmap["gadice"] or "0", referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
| 133 WriteHTML(hmap["htmlfile"], hmap["pdfinfo"], hmap["gadice"], hmap["highlightdoclink"]) |
| 134 elif pagefunc == "agendanumexpanded": |
| 135 LogIncomingDB(pagefunc, hmap["agendanum"], referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
| global WriteHTML = <function WriteHTML>, hmap = {'docid': 'A-53-PV.74', 'gadice': '', 'gameeting': 74, 'gasession': 53, 'highlightdoclink': None, 'htmlfile': '/home/undemocracy/undata/html/A-53-PV.74.html', 'pagefunc': 'gameeting', 'pdfinfo': <pdfinfo.PdfInfo instance>} |
| /home/undemocracy/unparse-live/web2/unpvmeeting.py in WriteHTML(fhtml='/home/undemocracy/undata/html/A-53-PV.74.html', pdfinfo=<pdfinfo.PdfInfo instance>, gadice='', highlightth=None) |
| 322 if dclass == "spoken": |
| 323 if not gadice or agendagidcurrent == gadice: |
| 324 WriteSpoken(gid, dtextmu, councilpresidentnation) |
| 325 elif dclass == "subheading": |
| 326 if agendagidcurrent and (not gadice or agendagidcurrent == gadice): |
| global WriteSpoken = <function WriteSpoken>, gid = u'pg002-bk01', dtextmu = u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Mesd...he peoples of the region to live in security.</p>', councilpresidentnation = None |
| /home/undemocracy/unparse-live/web2/unpvmeeting.py in WriteSpoken(gid=u'pg002-bk01', dtext=u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Mesd...he peoples of the region to live in security.</p>', councilpresidentnation=None) |
| 69 print '</cite>' |
| 70 |
| 71 print dtext[mspek.end(0):] |
| 72 |
| 73 print '</div>' |
| dtext = u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Mesd...he peoples of the region to live in security.</p>', mspek = <_sre.SRE_Match object>, mspek.end = <built-in method end of _sre.SRE_Match object> |
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe0' in position 4427: ordinal not in range(128)
args =
('ascii', u'\n\t<p id="pg002-bk01-pa01">Yesterday we attended ...he peoples of the region to live in security.</p>', 4427, 4428, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
encoding =
'ascii'
end =
4428
message =
''
object =
u'\n\t<p id="pg002-bk01-pa01">Yesterday we attended ...he peoples of the region to live in security.</p>'
reason =
'ordinal not in range(128)'
start =
4427