UN General Assembly
1982

and Shatila were felt with great sorrow by the entire population. A day of national mourning and of prayer in memory of the martyrs unjustly assassinated was decreed by the President of the Republic, Mr. Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane who, at the same time, forcefully con¬demned those who perpetrated and facilitated that dastardly deed. 182. On many occasions in the Assembly my country has expressed its views on the problem of the Middle East. There can be no doubt, as we see it, that it is Israel's intransigence, together with its annexationist and expansionist designs, which make it impossible to find a lasting solution to this problem, nor can there be any doubt that it is the vast financial and military means made available to Israel that make it possible for the Zionist entity to continue arrogantly to defy the many decisions and resolutions adopted by the Organization. 183. Mankind cannot remain indifferent to the genocide in west Beirut; otherwise it will lose its very dignity. The guilty and their accomplices must be found and punished. In our