{"id":195986,"date":"1989-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195986"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:07:03","slug":"auto-insert-195986","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195986\/","title":{"rendered":"Request for admission of Palestine to UNESCO – Israel’s analysis – Letter from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL,<\/p><\/div>\n

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SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL EDUCATION<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hundred and thirty-first Session<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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Item 9.4 of the agenda<\/p><\/div>\n

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APPLICATION FOR THE ADMISSION OF PALESTINE AS A MEMBER STATE<\/p><\/div>\n

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OF UNESCO, IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE II, PARAGRAPH 2,<\/p><\/div>\n

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OF THE CONSTITUTION; APPLICATION FOR THE ADMISSION OF<\/p><\/div>\n

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THE STATE OF PALESTINE TO UNESCO AS A MEMBER STATE<\/p><\/div>\n

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PROPOSED BY ALGERIA, EGYPT, INDONESIA, MAURITANIA,<\/p><\/div>\n

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NIGERIA, SENEGAL AND YEMEN<\/p><\/div>\n

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SUMMARY<\/p><\/div>\n

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By letter dated 19 May 1938 the Director-General has<\/p><\/div>\n

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transmitted to the Chairman of the Executive Board copy of a<\/p><\/div>\n

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letter dated 18 May 1989, together with its attachments, which<\/p><\/div>\n

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he has received from the Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of<\/p><\/div>\n

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Israel to Unesco, in reference to item 9.4 of the agenda. The<\/p><\/div>\n

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texts of these communications are reproduced below.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Director-General<\/p><\/div>\n

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reference: DG\/89\/199<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dear Mr Chairman,<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>I am in receipt of a letter dated 18 May 1989 from Mr Yakov Aviad, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Israel to Unesco, in reference to Item 9.4 of the Agenda of the present session of the Executive Board.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>In accordance with the wish expressed by Ambassador Aviad, I am forwarding to you herewith a copy of that letter, together with its attachments, and would ask you to bring the same to the attention of the Members of the Board in connection with their consideration of the aforementioned agenda item.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\t\t\t\tYours sincerely,\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tFederico Mayor\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
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Mr José I. Vargas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chairman of the Executive Board<\/p><\/div>\n

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Unesco House<\/p><\/div>\n

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Paris, May 18th., 1989<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. Director General,<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>I have been instructed to submit to you a document stating the legal case pertaining to point 9.4 of the Agenda of the 131 Executive Board Session, as seen by Israel.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>This analysis ""PLO\/Palestine" and the criteria for statehood in International Law" has previously been given to Mr. Maurice GLELE, the Legal Adviser of UNESCO.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Now that the PLO's legal arguments for its case have been presented in great detail and circulated to Board members – as 131 E.X\/43, we wish to bring to the attention of the members of the Board Israel's point of view.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>We shall be most grateful if you could circulate this analysis as a document of the current session of <\/i>the Board. This should enable all concerned to view the problem of the acceptance of the PLO into UNESCO as a full member with all the relevant arguments at their disposal.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Thanking you in advance,<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tI am, Mr. Director General,\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tYours sincerely,\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
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Mr. Federico MAYOR<\/p><\/div>\n

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Director General<\/p><\/div>\n

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131 EX\/INF.7 PARIS, 26 May 1989 Original: English UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL EDUCATION Hundred and thirty-first Session Item 9.4 of the agenda APPLICATION FOR THE ADMISSION OF PALESTINE AS A MEMBER STATE OF UNESCO, IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE II, PARAGRAPH 2, OF THE CONSTITUTION; APPLICATION FOR THE ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[2841,2653],"document-source":[2497],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2441,4317,2297,2185,3589,2741],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-195986","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-letter","document-category-paper","document-source-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-governance","document-subject-land","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-population","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/195986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/195986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=195986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}