JERUSALEM POLICY U.N. sanctions sought

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32715, 18 September 1971, Page 17

JERUSALEM POLICY U.N. sanctions sought

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 16. Jordan and Egypt asked the Security Council today to invoke sanctions to stop Israel from increasing Jewish influence in Jerusalem.

Egypt said that the council should call on member States “to stop all aid that enables the Zionist State to continue such policies.”

The Egyptian Ambassador (Mr Mohammed Hassan ElZayyat) said that France and the Soviet Union already had done this and that other States should emulate them. The Ambassador of Jordan

(Mr Baha ud-Din Toukan) said that to Arabs “every stone and every building” in the once-divided city “conveys a chapter in our national history and a symbol of our cultural heritage.” Israel had a master plan for building housing units that would accommodate up to 102,000 Israelis in the city that fell entirely under its control in the 1967 Middle East war, Mr Toukan said. As a prelude to carrying out the master plan, he said, Israeli authorities already had confiscated nearly 3000 acres of Arab land and built housing for Jews. Toukan also said that Irsael was contemplating a plan to extend the borders of Jerusalem by annexing three Arab towns and 27 Arab villages. He said that Israel consistently had refused to comply with previous Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on Jerusalem, and had avoided direct answers to communications from the Secretary-General (U Thant) on the subject. "No other State ever defied the authority of the United Nations and destroyed its reputation as much or as long as Israel did,” he said.