North County Times · Escondido, California · 2 March 1988
CP-1988-009
U.S. told to seek arbitration on PLO
Associated Press, United Nations
Transcribed from the clipping
“UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations voted 143-1 for the United States to submit to binding arbitration on whether it can shut down the PLO observer mission. The United States did not vote, and Israel cast the only negative vote.
Israeli Ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestine Liberation Organization is a terrorist group that has no place in the United Nations. The assembly also voted 142-0 for a resolution asking the World Court in the Hague for a ruling on whether the United States has the right to refuse arbitration. The arbitration would be conducted by an independent three-member panel.
The United States, which has not yet moved to close the mission, said it considered the emergency assembly meeting ‘premature and unnecessary.’”
Context added by this archive
A hundred and forty-three votes to one, with the United States abstaining from a vote about itself.
Cite this clipping
"U.S. told to seek arbitration on PLO," North County Times, 2 March 1988, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-009. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-009
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