An Argentinian legislator said that Israel’s “right to peace and security is undisputable” but that Just as Argentina respects Israel’s right to exist, “we also respect the right of the Palestinian people to have its own sovereign state.” The speaker. Dr. Antonio Truccoli, was one of several members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and Senate who spoke Monday at a luncheon of the Argentine Zionist Organization marking the 27th anniversary of the United Nations partition resolution.
Noting that Argentina does not take sides in the Arab-Israeli dispute. Truccoli said that the Jewish “presence” In Palestine is millenary and described Israel as possibly the only state that has to live with “periodic wars.” Another speaker, Dr. Jose Antonio Allende, vice-president of the Senate, spoke of Argentina’s traditional open door to immigration, opposition to racial discrimination and neutrality in conflicts involving other nations.
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