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03-July-1996 
 
GA96054 
 
 
    Peacemaking committee recommends amendments to overtures 
 
ALBUQUERQUE - The Peacemaking and International Relations committee will 
recommend approval of overtures 26  and 122, as well as commissioner 
resolutions 11 and 34, but not before careful editing and extensive 
amendment of  language took place in each document.  The same scrutiny, 
though with fewer changes, was given to  review and approval of  the report 
of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. 
 
    The committee also recommends, with comment,  adoption of  the report 
"Concerns for the Arab-Israeli Peace Process" from the report of the World 
Wide Ministries division 
 
    Some editing merely updated the latter report, taking into account 
constantly changing conditions, particularly  in the areas of the Arms Race 
and of Human Rights, as pointed out by national staff members as they 
resourced work of the committee. 
 
    While overture 26, from the Presbytery of San Francisco,  calls for 
lifting U.N. Sanctions on Iraq, overture 122, from Riverside Presbytery, 
seeks investigation of human rights violations in the Peoples Republic of 
China. CR 11 requests the U.N. Commission on Human Rights,  in cooperation 
with other bodies, to investigate human rights conditions in Tibet, and to 
determine the whereabouts of a  missing child, recently designated by the 
Dalai Lama to succeed to throne of the Panchen Lama. CR 34 proposes that 
the Assembly endorse the Statement of Conscience concerning worldwide 
religious persecution sponsored by the National Association of 
Evangelicals. 
 
    In other actions the committee approved responses to actions taken by 
the 207th Assembly, approved referred  recommendations 38.050-.053 from the 
Advocacy Committee for Women's Concerns, and also approved resolutions 
commending the expansion of the Commitment to Peacemaking and honoring Rich 
Killmer's years of service to the program. 
 
 
Midge Mack 

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