UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan today [Nov 10] strongly backed the seating of the People`s Republic of China in the United Nations.

Addressing the General Assembly, which is now debating the restoration of the lawful rights of China at the UN Mr Amjad Ali, Pakistani Permanent Representative, declared that `the only Government which can effectively represent the seven hundred million people of China and is therefore entitled to represent it in this organisation as one of its founders and a permanent member of the Security Council, is the Government which effectively and legitimately exercises power in China`. And that Government was the one in Peking.

Mr Amjad All disputed that the question of Chinese representation was an `important matter` as claimed by the opponents of China led by the United States, thus requiring a two-thirds vote for a decision in the General Assembly.

Pakistan believed that this question was one of the credentials of a country which was already a member of the UN. Correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Damascus,] the Iranian Ambassador here Mr Mahmoud Malayeri, last night [Nov 9] notified the Syrian Foreign Ministry that he and all the Iranian Embassy staff would leave Damascus for home shortly in accordance with instruction from his Government, a Syrian official source said here.

The Ambassador and his staf f were recalled by their Government yesterday in protest against reference to the Arabism of Khuzistan in the Syrian Government policy statement read out by the Prime Minister, Dr Youssef Zeayen, before the National Council of the Revolution last month.

Meanwhile, Mr Amir Abbas Hoveida, Prime Minister of Iran, told the Majlis (lower house of Parliament) yesterday that because of what he called ludicrous claims by a certain head of State, Iran had decided to recall her Ambassador from that country. He did not name the country.