I request that this letter be circulated as a docu­ ment of the General Assembly and of the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Im­ plementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. DOCUMENT S/15548* Letter dated 4 January 1983 from the representative of Israel to the Secretary-General Once again, I wish to draw your attention to a ter­ rorist outrage perpetrated against a mission of Israel abroad. On 23 December 1982, a 5-kilogram bomb exploded inside the building housing the Consulate-General of Israel in Sydney, Australia, seriously injuring one el­ derly Consulate employee and causing extensive dam­ age to three storeys of the building in which the offices of the Consulate-General are located. Just two hours after the explosion, a telephone-caller to Sydney Police headquarters claimed responsibility on behalf of the PLO for this outrage. A second outrage of this kind occurrt!d later the same day when a Jewish sports club in Sydney was badly damaged by a bomb blast. *Circulated under the double symbol NJS/60-S/15548. 3 [ Original: English] [5 January 1983] As is well known, acts of terror against diplomats and missions of Israel abroad have long been the es­ tablished practice of international terrorism, and in particular of the PLO. The attack against the Consul­ ate-General of Israel in Sydney comes iri the wake of several crimes of this kind that were committed against diplomatic targets of Israel in 1982 alone. These out­ rages include the following: (a) On 17 January 1982, a bomb was thrown at the residence of Israel's Ambassador to Guatemala in Guatemala City, causing extensive damage to the building; (b) On 3 April, an Israel diplomat in Paris, Yacov Barsimantov, was murdered as he was about to leave 