diplomatic skill and experience will enable you to guide the work now before us with knowledge and rectitude. 4. We also wish to congratulate Mr. Amega, of Togo, for the skilful and efficient manner in which he guided our work last month, upholding the good name of the Move- ment of Non-Aligned Countries, to which his country and my own belong. 5, The international press has recently seen fit to remind us of the responsibility of the Government of I Israel in the massacres of Palestinians in Beirut in September of last Year. The results of the investigation the Israeli Government was obliged to conduct because of pressure exerted by the Israeli people has given many sceptics a glimpse of the true nature of the Zionist State and not only of that of some of its leaders, as some have maintained, We must bear in mind that this report is not the first condemnation we have had of the role of the Israeli Government in the massacres, nor are these the first massacres that have been carried out against Palestinian civilians by forces backed by Israel. These criminal acts of genocide against the Palestinian people can be regarded as a new, ever more ruthless stage in the violation of international law, a continuation of the policies and practices that the Israeli regime has pursued in the past against the life and interests of the POPUlatiOn of the occupied Arab and Palestinian territories. Other signs of this criminal international conduct include the establishment of settlements in the occupied territories and the annexationist practices that are the subject of our deliberations today-specifically, such abuses as the illegal confiscation of the goods and lands of the Arab population, the imprisonment and murder of Pales- tinians and the introduction of changes in the national demographic nature and administrative machinery of the 
**Analysis**
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