U.S. WARNS U.N. FOSTERS TERRORISM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2011
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• Publication Date: December 7, 1984
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STAT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
7 December 1984
U.S. WARNS U.N. FOSTERS TERRORISM
BY J.T. NGUYEN
NEW YORK
A U.S. official warned Americans Friday against ignoring the United Nations
because it is ''fertile ground'' for terrorists seeking ideological
encouragement for their violence.
The warning came during a news conference held by current and forcer U.S.
officials who have dealt with terrorism in and outside the United States.
The panel of experts said terrorists in the United States only strike targets
that attract media attention, like the CitiCorp building in New York and the
Washington Monument.
''We can ignore the United Nations only at our own peril, '' Allan Gerson, a
special assistant to U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, said. ''Very often at
the United Nations, it is a continuation of war by other means.
''Certainly terrorists find fertile ground in the United Nations for
achieving a climate of international public opinion which, at the very least,
does not hamper their activities, but very often act as a source of
encouragement,'' he said.
He said the U.N. General Assembly in 1982 adopted a resolution demanding the
immediate release of Ziyad Abu Ein after the United States extradited him to
Israel, where he had been sought for a bombing attack in which two Israeli
children were killed.
Abu Ein is detained at Insar Camp in Israel. Another draft resolution is
expected to be adopted by the assembly this month demanding Abu Ein's release.
Gerson said there is a ''great divergence'' of opinion between the United
States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations.
Moscow allowed for ''exceptions in the use of force wherever so-called
national liberation movements are involved.'' he said. ''It is a concept that
not only encourages an attitude of tolerance toward terrorism but one that is
clearly inconsistent with the principle of the U.N. Charter.''
New York's FBI deputy assistant director Kenneth Walton said terrorist groups
such as the Weather Underground and the Puerto Rican liberation group FALN
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