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General Assembly chief: UN must adopt 1947 resolution on partition of Palestine
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Palestinians, Israel 

Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, president of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, on Thursday urged the UN to work toward implementing UN Resolution 181, which in 1947 called for the division of Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states.

During a speech at the General Assembly auditorium in honor of his election, Brockmann said the UN should work without delay to fulfill its old obligation of creating an independent Palestinian state.

"The greatest case failure of the United Nations is the lack of a Palestinian state," he said. "Article 22 of the covenant of the League of Nations pledged as a 'sacred trust' to establish a Palestinian state on a Palestinian territory that was part of the Ottoman Empire."
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Brockmann, 75, is a priest from Nicaragua who served as the country's foreign minister in the 1980s.

The newly elected General Assembly president continued to lament the lack of a Palestinian state, saying, "At this very moment, people continue to die as a result of our incapacity to implement a resolution adopted more than 61 years ago. As the consequence, today the Palestinian situation is at the lowest, most critical point in its tragic history."

Brockmann also criticized the UN's five permanent member nations and claimed that their "veto power has gone to their heads." He also had harsh words for the UN itself, claiming that the organization needs to undergo a process of democratization.

The speech, which came several days before Tuesday's opening of the General Assembly, caused a stir in the auditorium and left delegates looking surprised.

Israeli ambassador Daniel Carmon told Haaretz that Thursday's speech "expressed Brockmann's personal history and his political opinions - something that is unacceptable at the UN."

The Jewish daily Forward reported on Thursday that Brockmann is expected to participate in a dinner next week sponsored by five Christian organizations in honor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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      1.   HERE WE GO AGAIN 23:26  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 18/09/08
      2.   I`d like to know who those dinner hosts are 23:29  |  Michael 18/09/08
      3.   1947UN Resolution is outdated 23:41  |  Jerusalem Jew 18/09/08
      4.   Arabs, not Jews, rejected the UN partition plan in 1947 00:06  |  BAM 19/09/08
      5.   Father Miguel 00:07  |  Ray 19/09/08
      6.   The UN could not enforce its first resloution! What will change? 00:18  |  David G 19/09/08
      7.   My God... 00:23  |  Jose Marcio 19/09/08
      8.   Great Idea!! 00:28  |  Robert 19/09/08
      9.   RES 181 00:33  |  Miriam` 19/09/08
      10.   Sandinista Nicaragua is now buddies with Ahmadinejad`s Iran. 00:35  |  Fortuna Benmayor 19/09/08
      11.   Lets go back to balfour decleration!!!!! 00:44  |  ben 19/09/08
      12.   Miguel is a phony 00:47  |  Sidney 19/09/08
      13.   Push Arabs to demand from Arab League , evacuation-compensation 00:50  |  Joseph.E 19/09/08
      14.   In violation of the partition and as a threat to peace 00:52  |  Joseph.E 19/09/08
      15.   The evidence of Gaza 00:54  |  DJStahl 19/09/08
      16.   Jeruselem Jew 00:57  |  Dave Duncan 19/09/08
      17.   Why :Father Miguel" Is Both Right & Wrong 01:11  |  Brad 19/09/08
      18.   U.N. Invalidates It`s Credability Examining Non-Issues........... 01:31  |  dp 19/09/08
      19.   #11 I think not, ben 01:40  |  Johnboy 19/09/08
      20.   Brockman, read before you quote. Part II 02:00  |  howiej 19/09/08
      21.   a confluence of hatred 02:03  |  Arie 19/09/08
      22.   General Assembly Resolution #181 is illegal 02:15  |  Gee 19/09/08
      23.   Acutally, Ben and Johnboy, The Balfour Declaration Applied To 02:21  |  Eli 19/09/08
      24.   The British Mandate For Palestine in FULL 02:36  |  DOV KORET 19/09/08
      25.   Gotta love the way a politician can use words! 02:37  |  Johnboy 19/09/08
      26.   The Legally Binding San Remo Resolution said it all. 02:38  |  EGW 19/09/08
      27.   Mandate Pt 3 02:41  |  DOV KORET 19/09/08
      28.   Mandate Pt4 02:44  |  DOV KORET 19/09/08
      29.   Mandate cont 02:47  |  DOV KORET 19/09/08
      30.   Mandate 02:53  |  D K 19/09/08
      31.   #3, JERUSALEM JEW, do you not read? 03:06  |  VIPER 19/09/08
      32.   FINALLY! what was missing is being said loud and clear 03:07  |  Historian 19/09/08
      33.   UN successfully did that in `48. ARABS REFUSED!! 03:10  |  Slappy 19/09/08
      34.   General Assembly chief: UN must adopt 1947 resolution on partitio 03:13  |  Somebody 19/09/08
      35.   #9 Miriam 03:23  |  Moshe 19/09/08
      36.   They refused & wanted to kill us all then & will do it now End 03:27  |  Joe 19/09/08
      37.   #31 Viper 03:39  |  Moshe 19/09/08
      38.   It was the Arabs not the UN that rejected partition 03:41  |  PETER SM 19/09/08
      39.   #34 03:45  |  Moshe 19/09/08
      40.   The Resolution 03:47  |  D. 19/09/08
      41.   That Partion rejected by the Arabs ...? 04:14  |  Elie 19/09/08
      42.   moshe 04:27  |  sam 19/09/08
      43.   moshe 04:39  |  sam 19/09/08
      44.   #40; D, wow you couldn`t be farther from the truth! 04:41  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 19/09/08
      45.   #31; Viper, you missed the point 04:59  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 19/09/08
      46.   How Did This Meddlesome Priest Get To Be President Of The UNGA? 05:29  |  Jeff Northridge 19/09/08
      47.   Unclear 06:30  |  Gordon 19/09/08
      48.   Iranian puppets in Latin America 06:31  |  Fortuna Benmayor 19/09/08
      49.   1947 06:40  |  Jack 19/09/08
      50.   #26 EGW makes up his own San Remo text 07:03  |  Johnboy 19/09/08
      51.   The ratcheting up of pressure on Israel 07:05  |  Nick Ferriman 19/09/08
      52.   Would someone update the time traveller of what happend since 47 07:08  |  Dan 19/09/08
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      55.   Jeff Northridge _ This Meddlesome Priest 08:06  |  Eli 19/09/08
      56.   Johnboy _ Stop Your Lawyerly Pretensions! They Are Awful 08:16  |  Eli 19/09/08
      57.   Bravo, Father Brockmann!!!! 08:33  |  Che Vive 19/09/08
      58.   1947 UN resolution on Palestine 08:39  |  peacenik 19/09/08
      59.   Pretty funny 10:31  |  Colin Wright 19/09/08
      60.   #11 `Let`s go back to Balfour decleration` (sic) 10:38  |  Colin Wright 19/09/08
      61.   Airing, cleaning cobwebs & skeletons from UN closet on Palestine 10:40  |  Ivar 19/09/08
      62.   #45, DOC HOLIDAY, oh please doc 10:42  |  VIPER 19/09/08
      63.   "Father" Miguel and war crimes 10:43  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/09/08
      64.   For Jerusalem Jew # 3 10:43  |  Clickfool 19/09/08
      65.   Right Dan in Haifa 10:47  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/09/08
      66.   For DJStahl # 15 10:51  |  Clickfool 19/09/08
      67.   Johnboy just doesn`t get it 10:54  |  scott permut 19/09/08
      68.   EGW and his San Remo lies # 26 11:02  |  Clickfool 19/09/08
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      71.   #57 is it that catholics never change in persecuting jews? 11:14  |  v.hardman 19/09/08
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      75.   Oye vey...sound the alarm...!! 13:03  |  Esther 19/09/08
      76.   For Victor Paul Harris Hardman # 72 13:17  |  Clickfool 19/09/08
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      78.   Hooray ! The UN Resolution 181 is still in the books and will be 13:47  |  lakshmi 19/09/08
      79.   #62;Viper, you really believe that? 13:58  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 19/09/08
      80.   #76 boris the clucking fool the treaty is san remo 1920 14:04  |  v.hardman 19/09/08
      81.   lakshmi the laws of the Medes & the Persians are still there 14:08  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/09/08
      82.   2nd correction for boris the clucking fool 14:13  |  v.hardman 19/09/08
      83.   #68: Clickfool, your fact are slightly off 14:14  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 19/09/08
      84.   #78; lakshmi it is a matter of legal opinion, right? 14:47  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 19/09/08
      85.   Clickfool #76 and YOUR LIES 17:59  |  Eli 19/09/08
      86.   81 Margie of TA,weak,weak ! 22:43  |  lakshmi 19/09/08
      87.   #86; lakshmi your right and wrong 08:25  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 20/09/08
      88.   The UN.." Phase one of Islamic Challenge."! 17:38  |  Stephen. 20/09/08
      89.   ivar 77 19:55  |  potobac 20/09/08
      90.   87 Doc Holliday, 181 is valid because it is a special case of the 01:03  |  lakshmi 21/09/08
      91.   #90;lakshmi, D`Amato was just his opinion, no legal weight 16:50  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 21/09/08
      92.   #50 johnboy confirmation wanted on state with jewish majority 19:20  |  duncan 21/09/08
      93.   #68 clickfool, if they meant within it would 19:59  |  duncan 21/09/08
      94.   doc holliday 91 20:12  |  potobac 21/09/08
      95.   #94;potobac, I never said that, did I? 00:59  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 22/09/08
      96.   doc holliday 95 03:27  |  potobac 22/09/08
      97.   brockmann obvious bias 19:36  |  Serge 25/09/08
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