Merck, Sharp Dohme, export division of Merck Company, issued a denial today to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of an Arab report that the pharmaceutical firm had been removed from the Arab League boycott list after allegedly conforming with the League’s anti-Arab policies on trade. A report to this effect was broadcast by the Baghdad Radio.
A spokesman for the export division said that “to the best of our knowledge, we have never been placed on an international ‘blacklist,’ adding that while the company had “no direct operations” in Israel, its products “are being sold in Israel by distributors.”
The spokesman said that it was company policy to “make available the products of our extensive pharmaceutical research throughout the world without discrimination. We place no restrictions on the export of our products to any country, except those imposed by United States law.”
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