  {"id":178929,"date":"1990-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=178929"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:45:48","slug":"auto-insert-178929","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-178929\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli settlements &#8211; Letter from USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">LETTER DATED 12 FEBRUARY 1990 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED NATIONS<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Upon instructions from my Government, I have the honour to request that a meeting of the Security Council be convened to consider unlawful Israeli moves to settle the occupied territories. These actions by the Israeli Government run counter to the fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949, which precludes any changes in the demographic structure of the occupied territories, and to the decisions of the United Nations, and are obstructing the peace effort in the Middle East.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The Security Council should, in our opinion, call upon the Israeli Government not to permit any action which might alter the demographic structure of the occupied territories.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:380px;\">\n\t\t\t\t(<u>Signed<\/u>) A. M. 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