Word: scaliness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point, the sour relations between burly Soviet Delegate Yakov Malik and the U.S.'s acerbic Ambassador John Scali broke into a nasty public spat. In a shrewd parliamentary maneuver, Malik tried to get certain changes he favored incorporated in a revised text of a report by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on the U.N. force. Scali, who thought that he had reached agreement with Malik on the report in a behind-the-scenes huddle, was apoplectic. "Breach of faith!" he shouted, shaking his finger at Malik, as other delegates watched in stunned dismay. "Nonsense!" Malik shouted back. As a result...
...Ambassador to the U.N. John Scali and Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik, who wore nearly identical blue silk ties, each spoke in support of the resolution. Scali abhorred the "grave risks for the peace of the world" if the fighting continued-a warning that was to be underlined dramatically three days later by the superpower confrontation. Malik stressed that "time will not wait." The resolution passed, 14-0, with China not participating. The Chinese refrained from voting all week to protest "the collusive scheme" of the two superpowers...
...Zayyat: We support the evacuation of all our lands. We insist on it. We got 13 votes for our interpretation last July in the Security Council. It was [America's] idea that "constructive ambiguity," a phrase coined by Mr. Eban and borrowed by Mr. John Scali [U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.], was a good thing. [The U.S. cast a veto against the Arabs at that session.] Our intentions are not to occupy Israeli territory or to drive Israel into the sea. We say this not out of any tender love for Israel but because we understand the political reality...
...Scali argued that passage of the resolution could only exacerbate Middle East tensions, since Israel clearly has no intention of giving up the territories without negotiations with the Arab states. Despite Scali's efforts, the majority of the council last week endorsed the resolution-whereupon Scali vetoed it. It was only the fifth time in the U.N.'s 27-year history that the U.S. Government had resorted to this ultimate weapon in the Security Council...
...draft resolution was supported by 13 of the council's 15 members, including Britain and France, who buy the bulk of their oil from Arab states. China considered it too soft, and abstained. Scali rejected it as "highly partisan and unbalanced." He contended that if passed it would have "undermined the one agreed basis on which a settlement in the Middle East could be constructed," namely the 1967 U.N. Resolution 242, which provides for Israel's withdrawal linked to the establishment of "recognized and secure boundaries...