UN General Assembly
1969

Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights is non-negotiable. 150. In this connexion, I wish to refer to the annual report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the work of the Organization, submitted to the twenty-third session, in which he states that his Personal Representative on Jerusalem stated “... that Israel leaders had made clear to him beyond any doubt that Israel was taking every step to place under its sovereignty those parts of the city not controlled before June 1967”. 151. In an interview published by Newsweek magazine in its issue of 17 February 1969, the Prime Minister of Israel stated: ”As for the Golan Heights, we will, quite simply, never give them up. The same goes for Jerusalem. Here there is no flexibility at all.” In the same interview, the Israeli Prime Minister referred to Jerusalem in the following words: “There is no possible way to compromise on Jerusalem.” 152. No matter how much Israel’s representatives in the United Nations resort to the use of semantics and the deceptive abuse of words, they will inevitably collide with