Rep. Edward Koch (D. NY) has asked President Nixon to have the US Ambassador to the United Nations write a letter to the Security Council protesting the treatment of Jews in Syria. Rep. Koch today released the text of a letter he sent the President citing as a precedent for such action a letter from former UN Ambassador Charles Yost to the President of the Security Council.
Yost wrote in Jan. 1963 to state the US government’s revulsion at the public hangings of Jews in Iraq. “Since the Jews in Syria are being subjected to various forms of harassment, torture and other barbaric governmental activities,” Koch wrote to Nixon, “would it not make sense for the United States to send such a letter to the President of the Security Council for circulation as a Security Council document.”
Koch reminded President Nixon of the serious situation of Syrian Jews as described in a report by the Committee of Concern headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay. “I know that you will have our government do all that it can in this humanitarian cause,” he wrote.
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