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Article: Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned. (includes a related article on the extension of the UN mission, UNDOF, to Palestinian territories)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel on 4 November at a pro-Government rally in Tel. Aviv--an "outrageous act of terror" which had struck "one of the greatest leaders in Israel's history" -- was condemned in the "strongest possible terms" by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
"I pay tribute to the wisdom and vision of Prime Minister Rabin, whose unswerving commitment to his country, and whose recognition of the need for Israelis and Arabs alike to put behind the hostility and bloodshed which had region for decades, led to the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan and the agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ...