On a motion by Chile, welcomed by the Latin American section of the World Jewish Congress, the third extraordinary session of the Organization of American States, concluded here this weekend, adopted a resolution setting up inside OAS a special human rights committee. The WJC is the only non-governmental organization that had been invited by the OAS to attend the inter-American conference as an observer.
The vote on the human rights resolution, introduced by Manuel Biamchi, of Chile, was adopted by a ballot of 18-0, with Argentina abstaining. Following the session, Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, president of DAIA, the central body of organized Argentine Jewry, criticized Argentina for its abstention, declaring that the country’s OAS delegation “had not lived up to the expectations of Argentine public opinion.”
Dr. Jose A. Mora, general secretary of the OAS, addressed a luncheon given in his honor by the WJC, at which Dr. Goldenberg and Dr. Moises Goldman, chairman of the WJC’s Latin American executive, endorsed the Chilean move for the establishment of an OAS human rights committee. At the luncheon, Dr. Mora praised the WJC’s cooperation with the OAS, and lauded Israel’s close cooperation with the Organization of American States.
“Our increasingly intense cooperation with Israel,” he added, “has proved to us Israel’s immense possibilities for work with all of the world’s dispersed communities, not only in defense of human rights but also in technical development and in aid to the growing prosperity of the Americas.”
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