  {"id":186523,"date":"1978-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=186523"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:05:33","slug":"auto-insert-186523","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-186523\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine queston &#8211; NAM communique, Letter from Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">QUESTION OF PALESTINE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<u>Letter dated 17 August 1978 from the Permanent Representative <\/u>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<u>of Sri Lanka to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/u>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of a communique issued today the Group of Non-Aligned Countries.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I should &quot;be grateful if you would kindly have the communique circulated as document of the General Assembly under item 31 of the provisional agenda.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:160px;\">\n\t\t\t\t(<u>Signed<\/u>) B. J. FERNANDO\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:240px;\">\n\t\t\t\tPermanent Representative of Sri Lanka\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:240px;\">\n\t\t\t\tto the United Nations and Chairman of\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:240px;\">\n\t\t\t\tthe Co-ordinating Bureau of\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:240px;\">\n\t\t\t\tNon-Aligned Countries\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">ANNEX<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Communique issued on 17<\/u><u>&nbsp;August 1978 by the_Group<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>of Non-Aligned Countries<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Group of Non-Aligned Countries meeting in extraordinary session in New York&nbsp;&nbsp;on 17 August 1978, reiterated following paragraphs of the resolution on the question of Palestine adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Belgrade:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;The Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries meeting Belgrade from 25 to 30 July 1978\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;1.&nbsp;&nbsp;DECIDES:\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>(a) TO REAFFIRM its total, effective support for the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle under the leadership of Palestine Liberation Organization, their sole legitimate representative,&nbsp;in order to recover their inalienable national rights in Palestine which comprise.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Their right to return to their homeland, and to recover their as guaranteed by United Nations resolutions,\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Their self-determination, without any outside interference in keeping with the principles of the United Nations and of the Declaration of Human Rights,\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Their right to freely exercise sovereignty over their territory,&nbsp;&nbsp;their right to&nbsp;&nbsp;establish their independent national State in Palestine.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;5. TO REAFFIRM the need to take the necessary measures to ensure the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, in the capitals of non-aligned countries, to grant it all the rights, privileges and immunities accorded to diplomatic missions and to call upon those non-aligned countries that have not yet taken such measures to do so forthwith.&quot;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t* Reissued for technical reasons *\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t** A\/33\/150.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION OF PALESTINE Letter dated 17 August 1978 from the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of a communique issued today the Group of Non-Aligned Countries. 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