UN General Assembly
1952

88. Into this bilateral treaty between the Governments of Israel and Germany, into a matter which is none of their business and none of their concern, into a situation in which they lack the remotest right or title to interfere, the Arab Governments have now intruded with prejudice to the sovereignty of the signatory governments and with an abuse of the United Nations forum in order to magnify the echoes of this intervention. 89. The Foreign Minister of Egypt, speaking at this rostrum [395th meeting], took it upon himself to assert that Germany and Israel had no right or title to conclude the agreement which they have concluded. If the territories of Israel and Germany were Egyptian colonial possessions, the Egyptian Foreign Minister could not have spoken with a more lordly and arbitrary decisiveness about what treaties they might or might not agree to sign.