Arab countries are considering a boycott of Rumania and an appeal to the United Nations against the East European mass migration of Jews to Israel, according to a statement today in Jordan’s capital of Amman by the Lebanese Ambassador there.
The Cairo newspaper Al Ahram, frequently regarded as mountpiece for the Nasser Government, reportstoday that Arab envoys in Cairo are pressing for urgent meetings between leading Arab diplomats and President Eisenhowerw and Russia’s Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev. All Arab states are being urged, according to Al Ahram, to protest to Washington and Moscow against the influx of new immigrants into Israel. The subject is on the agenda for a meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers scheduled to be held in Cairo Mach 2.
Arab diplomats are being urged to use two separate lines of argument in Washington and in Moscow. In the American capital, they are told to request that the United States should not approve aid to Israel, and should disapprove the sending of private contributions from the United States which would finance “expansionist” immigration into Israel. In Moscow, the Soviet leaders would be warned that a continuance of Jewish emigration from Iron Cartain countries endangers Arab-Soviet friendship and, moreover, could lead to further displacement of Arabs rather than leaving room open in Israel for a “return” there of Arab refugees.
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