RECORD ON ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL OF SOVIET DELEGATIONS: ACTIONS, ATTITUDES AND WORDS OF ANDREI GROMYKO AND OTHERS

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
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Record on Establishment of Israel of Soviet Dele boas:
actions, attitudes and words of Andrei Givo rko and others
I. Soviet Actions:
a. 1Fhen Tsrael was created the U.S.S.R. and other communist
delegations to the UN were to be found:
1. Forcing the decision to permit the Jewish Agency
for Palestine to be beard on'tbe Palestine question (play
5, 1947 General Assembly adopted resolution submitted by
Byelorussian SS`'R and others.)
2. Votiss a t arc E{ firm pr 2218a.* that the
General. Assembly begin its consideration with "The
termination of-the Mandate over Palestine and the
declaration of its iridependeice". (by the General Committee
April. 30, 1947)
3. Providing the margin of votes vtsich defeated an Arab-
supported resolutions. which would have referred basic Palestine
questions involving the rights and fate of the indigenous
population of Palestine, and also an certain treaties and
conenazzts e=fectinr, tthese People",, to the International.
Court of Justice for an advisory opinion (a move obviously
ais.ed at forestalli=ng a partition resolution.)
4. Combating an Arab ba,r?ked effort "to stem the flour
of Jeuisb refugees and displaced persons from Europe into
Palestine.
5. 5. VotIM a i >Rt the resolution an v.hich the Arabs
basbd their media ha*s, trhich pro-posed "formation of a unitai
xeuni.tarr sovereeit state..." (Note: Five Moscow line
ddlegates-the U.S.S.R., Cz tchoslcr kia, Poland, Ulan ji i
SSR Byelorussia SSR--voted against this resolution; while
Yugoslavia broke frith U.S.S.R. an this issue).
6. Votira; for Paxtitio of Palestine (Ain, Yugoslavia,
broke with Orbit, being the only Commmi,st delegation to
abstain. )
7? O oposinreco3 s :t ration of 20 Paa^titioxa U1.8Z1, vben
this was sed in the Second Special Session of the General
Assembly April 16 - May 14, 1948). This involved sang a
and in effect., SZ sal vhi vemedified the
partition of Ndv'ember 29, 194T.-
All underling In this paper is by the present writer.
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$o L-r8 rsir'& a rew.utior_ a,irned At forcix~g he Arab
armies twat of A]L? of Palestine. Mtjis wasr to be a thieved
by recom~err41 g "tP,,at i.. mediate re;.v l fro,-a tJ` territories
of the Jeirisb mid Arab states in
eatir e. d b of .sd 1 foreign
trr';?p3 M d foreign iailitar persa,r, se.. such "forei'x troops"
uerae deferred by the Soviets a the "reguer troops of
Trans jori , Egypt, Syrie, Lebf: on el'seuk;ere" .
9* C~s Bissa& a S, 'ien proposal. for it coi,r iissiof to
)repare in Palestine ' proposals" for the establishment of
a single state of the whole of T"alestine-on a3' cantoni ,i;ioxi
or a er .1 basis.,.."
10. Providing the votes r:ecessery to deftnt a --vrj
proms t. .t the International Court Of Justice be s iced
to rule upcm the power of the General Aa senably to ? rtition
Palest.ne, au d tlle iaatern&tional status of Palest- . upon
termination of the Nuidate an i?;sy 15, 19L&
B.. The review of these actions makes it clear tat this
r?epresexsttatives, of the Con:nunist bloc : -
1o Disp1 y a complete preJudices in favor of the Jevi?ch
iizaorit_y in Palestine, and of the Jewish position on t3 e
Palestine question, aad paid only lip service in support of
the aspirations of the, ;Arab r.ajority, ass defined by the
legal representatives of tari.ss. majority. Thus, the Cornraunistss
zrere the oaly delegations :rhaich it isfi, ed that no decision
on the .Pa1eastii a cuestioai, should be taken "prior to hearing
the viers" of Zionist groups.
2. ~pmwredg or sup t ed by votes everZ lure
favo ed b t Z ? "
r ionissts had tkair re reset-tatives; uhile
on sire or sad taRin - eve measure xpmwored-or favored
b the AMD majority, or ;Aran re2re ntntives in the Unit y
3. Opposed and zabo aged "every co rpr o ni se solution
proposed for the Palestine cuestioaa, after the ftrtitioaa
Pln had been haascily adopted on 29 November 1947." The
Col: un ist delee&tiotrss.;sere responsible fdr null- zxn
effo 8 to yes=verse the -~artit=b decision to wV-
e bliss nt of a tei araa tY'LL~t alit'1i7~b
Were "the first to..Introduce in the Assembly
discusssioaa f the posyibility of 1Rrtitic>asrinL Pealestire
and were there first to dec1& that no solution other
tha;ttative were a1sa gazed at
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