A formal Israeli protest against the opening of an El Fatah Information Bureau in Geneva has been made to the Swiss government, officials reported here today. The envoy cited in his protest that announcement by the Swiss government after a murderous attack by Arab guerrillas on an El Al plane at Zurich’s airport three years ago that no political activity by Arab terrorist groups would be permitted nor would they be allowed to organize cells in Switzerland. The Foreign Ministry here said it had not yet received a reply to the protest but the Israel Radio correspondent in Switzerland said the Swiss government had declared that the El Fatah office was an agency connected with the United Nations bodies which have headquarters in Geneva and that it would not conduct any propaganda outside the UN buildings and delegations to sessions in the buildings.
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