Twenty two members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee have sent a cable to Prime Minister Indira Ghandi of India expressing “outrage” at her decision to bar the Israeli delegation from attending an international energy conference which opened in New Delhi earlier this week.
The cable, initiated by Rep. Tom Lantos (D. Calif,), noted that “India, as one of the few democracies in the world, should welcome the participation of the democratic state of Israel,” The signatories of the cable included Rep. Clement Zablocki (D. Wisc.), the committee chairman, and Rep. William Broom field (R. Mich.), the committee’s ranking Republican member.
Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel announced last week that neither he nor any of the other American delegates would attend the conference because of the decision to bar Israel. South Africa was also barred from attending.
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