A statement that Argentina would oppose energetically any attempt to exclude Israel from the United Nations during the conference of non-aligned nations which opened in Lima yesterday was recommended to the Argentine Cabinet and approved by President Peron. The Argentine stand was recommended to the Cabinet by Foreign Minister Angel Frederico Robledo who explained that Argentina’s traditional universalist stance obliged it to reject expulsion of any member country from an international organization.
The announcement followed the disclosure at a three-day convention here of the DAIA, Argentine Jewry’s central representative agency, that the DAIA had made an intensive effort to obtain such an assurance from Argentine officials. In making the disclosure to the 150 delegates, Juan Gurevich, DAIA secretary general, referred to widely publicized plans of Arab states to push for such a resolution at both the Lima conference and at the UN General Assembly next month.
The Lima conference opened yesterday with meetings at the ambassadorial level which will produce formal proposals for action by Foreign Ministers who will begin their sessions tomorrow, Sources in Lima said that the present negotiations for a second interim Sinai accord might reduce pressures for an anti-Israel resolution. It was reported that Israeli diplomats from the UN and Jerusalem came to Lima to lobby for Israel among the 70 delegations attending the conference, scheduled to continue until Friday.
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