(Jerusalem Post) - Melissa Radler After four decades of isolation, Israel was elected to serve on the UN General Assembly Working Group on Disarmament, its first committee posting at the world body since 1961. Excluded for decades from the Asian grouping by Arab and Muslim countries, Israel was finally accepted into the Western European and Others Group, (WEOG) in May 2000 with the backing of the U.S. This marked the first time WEOG presented Israel's candidacy for an assembly position.
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