For the first time in many years, Israel was not attacked by Arab delegations at an international gathering, this one the 10th Congress of International Law in Sao Paulo.
By unanimous vote of the 97 participating countries, some 4,000 delegates, resolutions offered by the Israel delegation were adopted. Among them that oil should not be a tool of international pressure; that terrorist groups must be fought; that human rights must be respected, and free emigration guaranteed from all countries. The Arab delegations, including that of Egypt, did not participate in the voting. Their delegations disappeared from the meeting before the voting.
Jerusalem attorney Yitzhak Menner, president of the Israel Bar Association’s council and leader of the Israeli delegation to the congress, was one of the nine members of the resolutions committee. Prof. Amos Shapiro, dean of Tel Aviv University’s Law School, was chairman of the panel on human rights. Meir Gabai, Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Justice, was the chairman of the technological and economic committees.
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