¹ Speech by the Honourable Jamieson, Don, entitled “Canadian Foreign Policy: A 1978 Perspective,” to the Empire Club, Toronto, March 2, 1978 Google Scholar. Text in External Aff., Canada, Statements and Speeches 78/2, at 7.

² Jonah, James, “Importance of UN Peacekeeping Operations Emphasized,” in UN Monthly Chronicle, Vol. 16, No. 5, July 1980, at 81.Google Scholar

³ H.C. Deb. (Can.) 1978, Vol. 121, at 3872–73.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Supra note 3, at 3970.

⁶ See Prime Minister P. E. Trudeau’s statement in Parliament on April 12, 1978. Ibid., 4422.

⁷ As announced by Defence Minister Barney Danson in Ottawa, the entire contingent returned to Canada on October 12, 1978 on the ground that “its mission is now accomplished.” Canada Weekly, Vol. 6, No. 41, October 11, 1978, at 8.

⁸ Text of address in Ext. Aff., Statements and Speeches, No. 78/5, at 8.

⁹ New York Times, October 16 & 17, November 11, 1976.

¹⁰ For text, see Dept. of State, Gamp David Summit, September 1978.

¹¹ New York Times, March 16, 1978.

¹² UN Monthly Chronicle, Vol. XV, No. 4, April 1978, at 5–22.

¹³ Ibid., 8.

¹⁴ Ibid., 22.

¹⁵ The mandate was subsequently extended three times by Security Council Resolutions 434 (1978), 444 (1979), and 450 (1979) until December 19, 1979.

^15a Han Nianlong, chairman of the delegation of the People’s Republic of China to the 34th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, declared on September 27, 1979 during the general debate that “we would like to reiterate that the Chinese Government and people will unswervingly support the just struggle of the Arab and Palestinian peoples. We strongly condemn the expansion and rivalry of the superpowers in the Middle East and are firmly opposed to the sinister superpower attempt to sow discord among the Arab countries and Israel’s peremptory attitude of obstructing an overall settlement of the Middle East question. Occupied Arab territories must be recovered and the Palestinian people’s national rights, including their right to return to their homeland and establish their own state, must be realized.” Text in Beijing Review, Vol. 22, No. 41, October 12, 1979, at 18.

¹⁶ UN Monthly Chronicle, Vol. XV, No. 5, May 1978, at 5–17 and 44–48.

¹⁷ Report of the Secretary General of the United Nations on U.N.I.F.I.L. for the period March ig-September 13, 1978, UN Doc. S/12845. After the withdrawal of the Iranian force, The Netherlands in 1979 contributed a contingent of 800 troops. UN Sec. Gen. Report on U.N.I.F.I.L. for the Period from January 13 to June 8, 1979, UN Doc. S/13384.

¹⁸ UN Doc. S/12845, at 10.

¹⁹ Ibid., 13–14.

²⁰ Interim Report of the Sec. Gen. concerning U.N.I.F.I.L. under Security Council Resolution 434, dated November 18, 1978, UN Doc. 8/12929, at 4.

²¹ New York Times, August 3, 1978.

²² For text of Resolution, see UN Monthly Chronicle, Vol. XV, No. 10, November 1978, at 11.

²³ Text in UN Doc. S/12958.

²⁴ See Special Report of the Sec. Gen. to the Security Council dated May 9, 1979, UN Doc. S/13308.

²⁵ Texts in UN Doc. S/13051, S/13242, and S/13348.

²⁶ For full text, see UN Monthly Chronicle, Vol. XVI, No. 5, July 1979, at 11. After completion of this note, the writer received a copy of the Verbatim Report of the meetings of the Security Council held respectively on August 29 and 30, 1979 at which the subject of southern Lebanon was discussed. At the former meeting, Mr. Andrew Young, in his capacity as representative of the United States, commented as follows: “Let me make absolutely clear the position of the United States with regard to the events in Southern Lebanon. In doing so, I speak with the full authority of the United States government. First, we condemn those who boast of the murder of an Israeli mother and her child, the attack on a bus filled with Israeli civilians, and the explosion of rockets and bombs in Israeli towns and cities. No political objective can ever justify such barbarism. Secondly, and just as strongly we condemn the policy of artillery shelling and pre-emptive attacks on Lebanese towns, villages and refugee camps which Israel and armed Lebanese groups which Israel supports have followed in recent months. Let there be no doubt or ambiguity about this. We cannot and do not agree with Israel’s military policies in Lebanon as manifested in the past few months. They are wrong and unacceptable to my government. They are painfully at variance with the values which Israel has traditionally espoused”: UN Doc. S/PV.2164, at 27–28. At the latter meeting, Secretary General Waldheim also spoke as follows: “I fully understand the preoccupation of the Government of Israel with prob-lems concerning the security of its people, especially in the light of the series of violent incidents and the tragic loss of innocent civilian life that have occurred in recent times. I have not failed to speak out against such acts and I shall continue to do so. That being said, I do not believe that the policy of pre-emptive strikes on targets in Lebanon is acceptable or indeed justified by the circumstances now prevailing”: UN Doc. S/PV.2165, at 3.

²⁷ For details of the developments, see the two important reports of the Secretary General to the Security Council on U.N.I.F.I.L., covering respectively the periods from March 19, 1978 and from January 13 to June 8, 1979: UN Doc. S/12845 and S/13384 as well as the Secretary General’s Interim Report concerning U.N.I.F.I.L. under Security Council Resolution 444 (1979) in S/13258.

²⁸ UN Doc. S/13258, at 4.

²⁹ UN Doc. S/13384, at 8.

³⁰ UN Monthly Chronicle, Vol. XVI, No. 3, March 1979, at 39.