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91_HR0270

 
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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, Israel is the only one of the 185 member nations
 3    of the United Nations that is  ineligible  to  serve  on  the
 4    United  Nations  Security Council, the key deliberative group
 5    in the world body; and

 6        WHEREAS, The United Nations  Charter  provides  for  "the
 7    equal  rights....of  nations  large and small", but Israel, a
 8    democratic nation and member  of  the  United  Nations  since
 9    1950, is denied the right to be elected as a temporary member
10    of  the  security  council,  unlike  any  other member of the
11    United Nations; and

12        WHEREAS, In order to be  eligible  for  election  to  the
13    security  council, a country must belong to a regional group;
14    every member state, from the  smallest  to  the  largest,  is
15    included  in  one  of the five regional groups; by geography,
16    Israel should be part of the Asian bloc, but  countries  such
17    as  Iraq  and  Saudi  Arabia  have  prevented  its  entry for
18    decades; and

19        WHEREAS,  As  a  temporary  measure,  Israel  has  sought
20    acceptance in the West  European  and  Others  Group  (WEOG),
21    which  includes  not  only the democracies of Western Europe,
22    but also Australia, Canada,  New  Zealand,  Turkey,  and  the
23    United  States; but despite the support of several countries,
24    including the  United  States,  Israel  still  has  not  been
25    admitted; and

26        WHEREAS,  Without  membership in a regional group, Israel
27    can never be elected to serve a term on the security  council
28    or  the  other  most  important  bodies of the United Nations
29    System, such as the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the
30    World Court, UNICEF, and  the  Commission  on  Human  Rights;
31    therefore, be it
 
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 1        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
 2    NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
 3    we  respectfully memorialize and urge the United Nations West
 4    European  and  Others  Group,  particularly  members  of  the
 5    European Union, to accept Israel as a temporary  member;  and
 6    be it further

 7        RESOLVED,  That  suitable  copies  of  this resolution be
 8    forwarded to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the
 9    Representative of the Presidency of the European  Union,  and
10    the  Permanent  Representative  of  the  United States to the
11    United Nations.

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