----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 9:45 PM Subject: [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] US denies Palestinian request for Security Council meeting STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:24:48 From: "Activist Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Activist Mailing List - http://activist.cjb.net US denies Palestinian request for Security Council meeting AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Friday, October 13 4:08 AM SGT UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (AFP) - The United States rejected a Palestinian call Thursday for an emergency Security Council meeting to demand an end to the use of force by Israel. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, said it was "hard to conceive of any action the Security Council could take today which would be anything other than negative to an explosive situation." The Palestinian observer to the UN, Nasser Al-Kidwa, had requested the meeting, saying Israel had "taken military action tantamount to declaring an overall war against the entire Palestinian people." In a letter to the council president, Martin Andjaba of Namibia, Al-Kidwa said that Israeli air raids on the West Bank town of Ramallah and on Gaza City were "in violation of all norms of international law." He told reporters he hoped the council would adopt a resolution to support three points. These were: the immediate cessation of violence and the use of force; the immediate implementation of Council Resolution 1322, passed Saturday; and cooperation with Annan's efforts to defuse the crisis. Resolution 1322 condemned Israel's "excessive use of force" against Palestinians and called for an end to hostilities and "the immediate resumption of negotiations within the Middle East peace process." Holbrooke made it clear that the United States would its power of veto to defeat any new resolution critical of Israel. He recalled that the United States had abstained on Resolution 1322, which was "biased and one-sided and unhelpful to the situation," he said. "With that resolution, the Security Council has effectively ended, at least temporarily, its potential usefulness in this crisis," he said. "I do not see any value in any further resolutions here, at this time, in that framework," he said. "We have made that view abundantly clear this morning to our friends and colleagues in the Security Council." Holbrooke said he had been in touch with US President Bill Clinton in the White House, and that "the next call we shall make" would be to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has been in the region since Monday. He said any attempts to engage the council would "undermine the valiant efforts" by Annan to end the violence. In a statement in Beirut on Thursday, Annan warned of the risk that the situation could "escalate to a crisis that could destabilise an entire region." Al-Kidwa echoed that sentiment in his letter to Andjaba, saying Israel's actions "threaten to plunge the whole region into serious confrontation." The letter did not mention the lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah earlier Thursday. But it recalled the wording of Resolution 1322, saying that Israel's actions were a grave violation of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War. ====================== ===================================================================== * The Activist * http://get.to/activist * http://activist.cjb.net This is not about the world that we inherited from our forefathers, It is about the world we have borrowed from our children !! ===================================================================== --------- End Forwarded Message --------- oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' http://www.angelfire.com/ut/Angel1 Main Line News http://www.mainlinenews.net xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Pray for the Dine'h and traditional Hopi at Big Mountain, AZ, USA. http://members.xoom.com/senaa/HomePage.html xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your business more productive! Instantly automate routine business tasks like payroll, time cards, expense reports, invoices, purchase orders, business forms and more - for free! Try Freeworks.com today at http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/Freeworks
