Maltese Permanent Representative to the UN elected Rapporteur

At a meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held on 14 April 1997 in New York, Ambassador George Saliba, Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations in New York, was formally elected Rapporteur of the Committee.

The post of Rapporteur of the Palestine Committee has been held by the Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations, since the establishment of the Committee in 1975.

During the meeting, the Committee also heard the Permanent Observer for Palestine, Nasser Al-Kidwa, urging the international community to support a special emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly that would recommend appropriate means to end the new Israeli settlement construction in East Jerusalem. Sixty-two member States of the United Nations, including Malta, have up to now expressed their support for this emergency session of the General Assembly.