This week UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres is conducting his first visit to Israel
since his appointment. While in Israel the Secretary General will meet with PM
Netanyahu, Defense Minister Liberman and senior figures from the IDF, as well
as President Rivlin.
Following
are the key elements of Israel's position on the substantive issues:
·
Israel sees this visit
as a welcome opportunity for a new beginning in relations with the world
body, and welcome the Secretary General as a friend.
·
The UN's and its
agencies' obsessive pre-occupation with Israel must end if the
world body is to make a constructive contribution to peace and stability in the
region.
The Secretary General must be challenged on the full array of
problematic UN activity:
o The
UN Human Rights Council shameless
singling out of Israel
o The
repeated, outrageous UNESCO decisions rewriting the history Jerusalem and
Hebron to exclude the Jewish people
o The
annual circus of anti-Israel resolutions in the General Assembly and the
permanent committees they create.
o The
discriminatory anti-Israel activities of different U.N. bodies and their
"industry" of reports, declarations and decisions.
Further the Security Council
must act more resolutely to implement its resolutions forbidding Hezbollah
rearmament and entrenchment in southern Lebanon. The
Security Council must act to prevent a deterioration of the already dangerous
situation.
The UN must act to stop
the ongoing Palestinian encouragement of terror against Israeli civilians -
online, through the payment of stipends to convicted terrorists and their
families, through naming town squares after murderers. These fundamental
obstacles to any kind of progress with the Palestinians.
Israel has the experience
and the ability to make a meaningful contribution to the UN in
many fields:
o in
cyber-security, water technologies, women's' empowerment, disabled rights,
combatting desertification, and more. Israel is also a partner in the global
effort to combat terror.
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