OMAR IBRAHIM DABBASHI (Libya):  In the name of the compassionate and merciful, Mr. President, allow me at the outset to express my delegation’s appreciation for the work of the Special Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.  We would like to commend the effort it has been making since its establishment in order to discharge the task entrusted to it by the international community, Mr. President.
Once again, this year, we consider the Question of Palestine.  Most of us are expressing our disappointment at the UN for its failure over 58 years to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive solution that ensures the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, namely it’s their right to return to their home, their right to self-determination, and their right to the establishment of their independent state on all their land.
Then, what is the cause of this dismal failure?  
As a matter of fact, the answer is easy and clear.  We have all noted over the past decades how the Security Council deals with the Israeli entity, which has usurped the Palestinian land and displaced its people to all corners of the world.  And the entity that insists on denying the right to return to their land and tries with all means possible with the support of its allies to alter the history, geography and even the cultural identity of the region.
The Security Council has dealt with the occupation authorities as if they are above the law and above criticism.  All pressures were brought to bear on the Palestinian people to accept the fait accompli and to cease their demand to restore their land or to struggle for the restoration of their land.  
So, President, the Israeli entity has used the international circumstances that have prevailed after September 2001 in order to brand the struggle of the Palestinian people as terrorism -- the Palestinian people who are striving only to end the occupation and to restore their rights.  Their struggle is a legitimate one that is insured by all international laws and norms.  
Here we cannot fail to express our regret that a number of states who have struggled against Nazism and supported the liberation movements against the Nazi occupation have now completely adopted the Israeli viewpoint and supports the Israeli occupation, and they attempt to justify the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian people which are no less cruel or heinous than the crimes committed by Nazism.  
Mr. President, the UN bodies, in particular the Security Council, must put an end to double standards.  The General Assembly must strive for a genuine reform of the Security Council, a reform that would ensure the abolition of the veto power or at least its restriction so as not to keep the resolutions of the General Assembly as dead letter and in order to insure that international law will not longer remain a law for the powerful, interpreted according to their wish and whim.  
When we talk about international law, there is a need to take all the necessary measures to compel the Israeli entity to implement the advisory opinion of the ICJ, adopted on 9 July 2004, concerning the construction of the Separation Wall in the Palestinian territories.  That advisory opinion was reaffirmed by the General Assembly in its emergency special session in Resolution 15/10, adopted on the 20th of July 2004.
Mr. President, many plans have been put forward over the last few decades for the solution of the Question of Palestine, the last of which was the Road Map, but which is supervised by the Quartet.  However, we have not seen any kind of a progress toward the desire objective because the Quartet has left everything dependent on the wishes of the occupying power.  I repeat.  The Quartet has left everything dependent on the wishes of the occupying power.  It does not put forward any initiatives but waits for some Israeli propaganda actions to move through them as if they were genuine initiatives.
Any movement towards a just and comprehensive solution must proceed from the international law and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.  The Secretary of the Popular Committee for Foreign Liaison International Cooperation said on the 23rd of September 2005, during the general debate, and I quote:  
“We believe that the solution cannot be achieved through the imposition of the fait accompli, the adoption of resolutions or the adoption of plans that cannot be implemented.  It can only be achieved through a radical solution that insures the return of all Palestinian refugees to their land and the establishment of a democratic state on the historic land of Palestine in which Arabs and Jews live on an equal footing following the example of South Africa where harmony has been achieved between the blacks and the whites after decades of conflict and blood shed.  
Unless this is achieved by the international community the suffering of the Palestinian people will continue and the region will continue to live in a state of conflict and tension where no one enjoys peace nor security.”  End of quotation.  Mr. President, the Middle East region will not enjoy peace or security unless the international community is able to achieve a just and lasting solution to the Question of the Palestine, the achievement of the full withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Syrian Golan Heights and the Lebanese Shabaa Farms.  I thank you, sir.