HC Deb 17 October 1972 vol 843 c64W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) whether he will seek to raise at the United Nations Security Council the murders and kidnapping of Israeli participants at the Munich Olympic Games;

  1. (2) whether, having regard to the murders and kidnapping carried out by an Arab terrorist gang at Munich, he will now protest to those Arab governments which give shelter to the terrorists;
  2. (3) whether he will now raise at the Security Council of the United Nations the harbouring by member states of terrorist organisations and their members, such as those who carried out the killing of Olympic athletes at Munich, such harbouring being a threat to international peace;
  3. (4) whether he will now seek to raise at the United Nations the introduction of sanctions against those member countries which provide shelter or finance to terrorist organisations such as that which carried out the killings of Olympic athletes at Munich.

Mr. Godber

An item on terrorism has been inscribed on the agenda for the United Nations General Assembly and the United States Government has submitted a draft resolution which calls for the adoption of a convention on terrorism. We are strongly in favour of effective collective international action against terrorism and will play a full and active part in the United Nations discussions on measures to combat it. There can be no Government, either Arab or non-Arab, which is not fully aware of our attitude, which my right honourable Friend made clear in his statement to the General Assembly on 27th September.

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