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Whereas since Israel was accepted as part of WEOG in 2000, 
it has had the right to apply for positions on United Na-
tions committees; 
Whereas the State of Israel is the only member of WEOG in 
a conditional status; 
Whereas Israel is excluded from discussions and consultations 
of WEOG at the United Nations offices in Geneva, 
Nairobi, Rome, and Vienna; 
Whereas Israel has been refused admission to the Asian 
States Group of the United Nations, thereby being denied 
the rights and privileges of full membership in the United 
Nations; 
Whereas Israel has submitted its candidacy for membership 
on the United Nations Security Council for 2019 and 
hopes to gain the full participation rights in the United 
Nations to which it is entitled as a sovereign state; 
Whereas at the opening of the 61st United Nations General 
Assembly in 2006, former United Nations Secretary-Gen-
eral Kofi Annan stated that ‘‘supporters of Israel feel 
that it is harshly judged by standards that are not ap-
plied to its enemies . . . and too often this is true, par-
ticularly in some UN bodies’’; 
Whereas Israel has played an active role in the international 
community and within the United Nations; 
Whereas Israel already sits on several important committees 
in the United Nations, and representatives from Israel 
have served as deputy chairs in the United Nations nu-
merous times; 
Whereas Israelis were first elected to notable United Nations 
positions in 1994, including the high administrative tri-
bunal at the Hague, Vice Chair of the World Health Or-
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ganization’s Executive Committee and the Human Rights 
Committee, in June 2005 Israel’s Ambassador to the 
United Nations, Dan Gillerman, was appointed one of the 
21 new vice presidents of the General Assembly, and in 
July 2005, Israel was elected to deputy chairmanship of 
the United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC); 
Whereas, on June 19, 2007, for the first time since Israel 
joined the United Nations, an Israeli diplomat, Mr. Ron 
Adam, Director of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s United 
Nations Political Affairs Department, was chosen to 
chair a United Nations committee, the Committee on 
Program and Coordination (CPC); 
Whereas this 33 member body (composed of Argentina, Ar-
menia, Belarus, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Republic of 
Central Africa, China, Comoros, Cuba, France, Ghana, 
Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, 
Kenya, Pakistan, Portugal, Korea, Russia, Senegal, 
South 
Africa, 
Switzerland, 
Uruguay, 
Venezuela, 
Zimbabwe, United States, and Israel) approves the work 
plan for all United Nations agencies and bodies; 
Whereas Israel’s first unique appointment to chair a United 
Nations committee will hopefully encourage the normal-
ization of Israel’s bilateral and multilateral relations and 
challenge future disproportionate United Nations con-
demnation of Israel; 
Whereas anti-Semitic rhetoric and sentiment within United 
Nations fora have been of grave concern to the United 
States and other responsible nations; 
Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 
(1975) concluded that ‘‘Zionism is a form of racism and 
racial discrimination’’ and the General Assembly, by a
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vote of 111-25, revoked Resolution 3379 in 1991 in re-
sponse to strong leadership by the United States; 
Whereas the goals of the 2001 United Nations World Con-
ference Against Racism were undermined by hateful, 
anti-Jewish rhetoric and anti-Israel political agendas, 
prompting both Israel and the United States to withdraw 
their delegations from the Conference; 
Whereas, in 2004, at the first United Nations Department of 
Public Information Seminar on Anti-Semitism, former 
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan acknowl-
edged that ‘‘the United Nations’ record on anti-Semitism 
has at times fallen short of our ideals’’; and 
Whereas, in 2005, the United Nations held an unprecedented 
session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the lib-
eration of the Auschwitz concentration camp: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) congratulates the Government and people of the 
State of Israel on Israel’s first ever appointment to chair 
a United Nations committee; 
(2) supports continued expansion of Israel’s role at 
the United Nations; 
(3) welcomes recent attempts by the United Nations 
to address the issue of prevailing anti-Semitism; 
(4) calls on the United Nations to officially and 
publicly condemn anti-Semitic statements made at all 
United Nations meetings and hold accountable United 
Nations Member States that make such statements;
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(5) urges the members of the United Nations’ 
Western European and Others Group (WEOG) to extend 
full and permanent membership to Israel, without condi-
tions, until such time as Israel can serve as an effective 
member of the Asian States Group of the United Na-
tions; and 
(6) calls upon United Nations Secretary-General 
Ban Ki-Moon to continue to work to end any unfair vili-
fication of Israel at the United Nations and ensure 
Israel’s full participation in, and access to, all inter-
national fora under United Nations auspices. 
Attest: 
Clerk.