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The OAU Mission and the Middle East Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Susan Aurelia Gitelson
Susan Aurelia Gitelson
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Susan Aurelia Gitelson is a lecturer in International Relations and African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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International Organization , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , Summer 1973 , pp. 413 - 419
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1973

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References

1 See Dominquez, Jorge I., “Mice that Do Not Roar: Some Aspects of International Politics in the World's Peripheries,” International Organization, Spring, 1971 (Vol. 25, No. 2), pp. 175–208.Google Scholar

2 Young, Oran R., in The Intermediaries (Princeton: N.J: Princeton University Press, 1967),CrossRefGoogle Scholar considers the role of intermediaries in detail and should be consulted for comparative purposes. The OAU mission, however, did not fully qualify as mediation in the sense he analyzes since it was an ad hoc effort to restore the Jarring mediation mission.

3 OAU resolution, Addis Ababa September 1–3, 1970, quoted in Africa Contemporary Record 1970–1971, Colin Legum and Anthony Hughes (eds.), (London: Rex Collings, 1971), pp. 9–10.Google Scholar For background, see Woronoff, Jon, Organizing African Unity (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1970).Google Scholar

4 “OAU AGH/Res. 66 (VIII), as part of UN Security Council S/10272, 21 July 1971.

5 Zevi, Tullia, “Africans, Arabs, Israelis, A Triad of Suffering Peoples: Interview with President Senghor of Senegal,” Africa Report, 07–08, 1972 (Vol. 17, No. 7), p. 11.Google Scholar

6 General Assembly Resolution 2799 (XXVI) on 13 December 1971.

7 General Assembly draft amendment A/L. 651 (10 December 1971) and A/L. 655 (13 December 1971).

8 General Assembly draft amendment A/L. 656 (13 December 1971).

9 See Kay, David A., “The Impact of African States on the United Nations,” International Organization, Winter, 1967 (Vol. 23, No. 1), pp. 20–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

10 OAU resolution, Rabat, Morocco, 14, June 1972.

11 President Anwar el–Sadat of Egypt mentions the Jarring mission, but completely neglects the OAU in his account of peacemaking efforts in the Middle East in “Where Egypt Stands,” Foreign Affairs, 10, 1972, (Vol. 51, No. 1), pp. 114–123.Google Scholar

12 It was not mentioned in newspaper accounts that the mission had been reactivated. How successful the Jarring mission will prove to be will depend in great measure upon its ability to regain a reputation for impartiality, the possibilities for direct negotiations between the parties, and the intentions of the Great Powers.