Editing Entebbe raid (section)

=== United Nations ===
The [[United Nations Security Council]] convened on 9 July 1976, to consider a complaint from the Chairman of the Organization of African Unity charging Israel with an "act of aggression".<ref name=SC1939/> The Council allowed Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, [[Chaim Herzog]], and Uganda's foreign minister, [[Juma Oris|Juma Oris Abdalla]], to participate without voting rights.<ref name=SC1939/> UN Secretary General [[Kurt Waldheim]] told the Security Council that the raid was "a serious violation of the sovereignty of a Member State of the United Nations" though he was "fully aware that this is not the only element involved ... when the world community is now required to deal with unprecedented problems arising from international terrorism."<ref name=SC1939>Security Council, Official Records, 1939th meeting, 9 July 1976, S/PV.1939.</ref> Abdalla, the representative of Uganda, alleged that the affair was close to a peaceful resolution when Israel intervened while Herzog, the representative of Israel, accused Uganda of direct complicity in the hijacking.<ref name=SC1939/> The US and UK sponsored a resolution which condemned hijacking and similar acts, deplored the loss of life arising from the hijacking (without condemning either Israel or Uganda), reaffirmed the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, and called on the international community to enhance the safety of civil aviation.<ref>Security Council. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America: draft resolution. Document S/12138, 12 July 1976.</ref> However, the resolution failed to receive the required number of affirmative votes because two voting members abstained and seven were absent.<ref name=SC1943>Security Council, Official Records, 1943th meeting, 14 July 1976, S/PV.1943, p. 18.</ref> A second resolution sponsored by Benin, Libya and Tanzania, that condemned Israel, was not put to a vote.<ref name=SC1943/><ref>Security Council. Benin, Libyan Arab Republic and United Republic of Tanzania: draft resolution. Document S/12139, 12 July 1976.</ref>