Arab delegates, except for those from Egypt and Jordan, as well as some delegates from Soviet bloc and Third World nations, today staged what was described as “a noisy walk out” when the head of the Israeli delegation, Sandra Doron, was preparing to address the United Nations end of the decade women’s conference here.
The protestors chanted anti-Israel and anti-Zionist slogans along with pro-Palestinian chants as they paraded out of the Nairobi Conference Center where the meeting is being held. The delegates returned after Doron’s speech was finished. Doron sent a letter of protest to conference president Margaret Kenyatta, saying she was not provided with enough time to deliver her address and that the chanting protestors made her speech inaudible.
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