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The mandate and composition of the Committee on Palestine

The VIIth NAM Summit (New Delhi, 1983) established the Committee on Palestine at the level of Heads of State of Government to cooperate with the seven member Arab Committee to support the right of the Arab Palestinian people in accordance with international law and the will of the Non-Aligned countries and their peoples. The mandate given to the Committee at the VIIth Summit was to work with the various forces influential in the Middle East conflict for the achievement of a just, durable and comprehensive peace in the Middle East which will enable the Palestinian people to exercise their rights in freedom and sovereignty in their independent homeland. The Committee currently comprises the following members:

1. Algeria Minister Abdelkader Messahel
2. Bangladesh Dr Mohammed Selim, Chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs in the Bangladeshi Parliament
3. Cuba Deputy Minister José Armado Guerra Menchero
4. India Minister of State U.V. Krishnam Raju
5. Indonesia Ambassador Harsoyo Sudirman
6. Palestine Minister Farouk Kaddoumi
7. Senegal Ambassador Ibra Degučne Ka
8. Zambia Minister Sipakeli K. Walubita
9. Zimbabwe Minister John Landa Nkomo
10. Chair of the NAM Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma

The countries representing the NAM Security Council Caucus are as follows:

1. Bangladesh Dr Selim Mohammed, Chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs in the Bangladeshi Parliament
2. Colombia Ambassador Fred Eric Jacobsen
3. Jamaica Ambassador Curtis Ward
4. Mali Ambassador Louis Bastide
5. Mauritius Minister Anil Kumarsingh Gayan
6. Singapore Minister of State Chin Hock Ow
7. Tunisia Minister Habib Ben Yahia

Egypt was represented by Assistant Minister Mohamed Ezz Eldine and Jordan by Ambassador Ziad Al Majali. The Secretary General of the UN was represented by Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Danilo Turk and Ambassador Ibra Degučne Ka (Senegal) also participated in his capacity as Chair of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. 

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