The American Jewish Congress called on the United States Government today to support one of the new African states rather than the United Arab Republic for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
In a resolution, the national governing council of the Jewish Congress charged the UAR with “intransigent and persistent defiance of the very United Nations Security Council to whose membership it now aspires,” These actions, the resolution declared, “preclude the election of the United Arab Republic to any post at which it will be charged with the preservation and promotion of world peace.”
In urging that the U.S. throw its support for the non-permanent Security Council seat to one of the new African states in the United Nations, the Congress declared such a move would “enhance the prestige of these new states and strengthen our own relationship with them.” The resolution said this step would also “serve notice that member states cannot with impunity pursue a course of piracy and warmongering” and would “uphold the principle that leadership in the United Nations must be entrusted only to those states whose actions clearly demonstrate a respect for international morality and the law of nations.”
More than 100 Congress leaders from various sections of the country attended the meeting. The resolution was presented by Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the Congress, who said it will be forwarded to the White House and State Department. Nathan Edelstein, of Philadelphia chairman of the governing council, presided.
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