Transport Minister Gad Yaacobi has called on the International civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and more than a dozen governments to take urgent action to prevent a further escalation of terrorist attacks on airports such as the two attacks on El Al planes at Orly Airport near Paris in the past week, In a letter sent yesterday to ICAO Chairman Walter Bohaghi, Yaacobi urged that the Orly incidents be added to the agenda of the Organization’s current meeting.
He said Israel was drafting a list of new proposals to counter Arab terror against air traffic which will be in addition to similar proposals submitted by Israel earlier, Yaacobi wrote to the transport ministers of more than a dozen countries with which Israel has diplomatic or aviation ties to join in a common front against terrorists, He claimed that Arab terrorists were able to carry out attacks, such as those at Orly because various governments were lenient toward them and local aviation authorities did not take adequate security precautions.
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