independent State. The Council has a responsibility to use its powers as laid down in the Charter of the United Nations to implement its resolutions. The peoples of the world are waiting. Will the Council act? 127. The PRESIDENT (inierprelation from Russian): I will now make a statement as representative of the UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS. 128. The Soviet delegation believes that the initiative taken by the Group of Arab States in calling for a resumption of the discussion in the Council of the ques- tion of the situation in the Arab territories occupied by Israel is a timely one. This problem has been under con- sideration by the Council for many years now, and with each passing year, with each passing month of the Israeli occupation, the scale of the expansionist policy of Tel Aviv becomes increasingly apparent. The goal of that policy is extremely clear: it is to perpetuate the seizure of the ancestral Arab lands and to deprive the Palestinian people of their homeland. 129. Since 1967, the ruling circles in Israel have persist- ently been undermining all attempts to bring about a just and lasting settlement of the Middle East conflict. Along with this, they have been waging in the Arab territories a campaign of open colonial plunder and preparing the ground for their final absorption. For almost 16 years now, the occupation of the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights has been con- tinuing. In the course of all these long years, the Israeli authorities have, in a planned and methodical fashion, been carrying out their policy of the colonial “appropria- tion” of those territories, clearing the ground for the massive implantation there of Israeli settlers. The map distributed at the request of the representative of Jordan 
**Analysis**
This text appears to be a speech or statement made by a representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations, addressing the issue of the Israeli occupation of Arab territories. The text does not mention economic or industrial development, natural resources, transportation, communication, health, education, employment, or humanitarian aid. Instead, it focuses on the political and territorial issues surrounding the Israeli occupation. The text also lacks scientific or technological content. Given the focus on politics and territorial issues, I would hypothesize that the most fitting category would be International Relations or Politics.

**Category**
International Relations