UN General Assembly
1982

legitimate rights to return to their home and to self-determination. That is why we have supported, and continue to support, all the efforts aimed at establishing peace in the region. The Twelfth Arab Summit Conference, in which we participated, laid the basis and provided the guidelines for a peaceful and just solution to the Middle East problem. Furthermore, the eight principles representing the Arab framework for solving this problem not depart, in general or in details, from the principles that have already been approved by the United Nations. 157. The recent initiative of Mr. Reagan, the President of the United States of America, directed to solving the Middle East problem contains positive points that might contribute to the efforts being made to settle this problem. 158. The peace initiative of the Arab States and President Reagan's initiative create together a climate conducive to finding a permanent and just settlement to the problem. We should take advantage of it and develop it, and the negative attitude of Israel should not be allowed to undermine our efforts. However, the Israeli