Representatives of Latin American Jewry meeting here are urging all South and Central American governments to vote against the resolution equating Zionism with racism when it is submitted to the United Nations General Assembly plenary this week. Governments that supported the draft when it was adopted by the General Assembly’s Third Committee on Oct. 17 were asked to reverse their positions, and governments that were absent or abstained at that time were called on to cast negative votes.
Letters to that effect were dispatched to Latin American heads of state at a meeting of the Latin American Jewish Congress Executive. The letters expressed the gratitude of the Jewish community to those governments that opposed the Arab-inspired draft in the Third Committee.
The LJ Congress also wrote to the Confederacao Israelita do Brasil, the central representative body of Brazilian Jewry, asking it to convey thanks to the Brazilian news media and personalities who publicly opposed the Brazilian government’s vote in favor of the anti-Zionist draft.
The LJ Congress Executive meeting was attended by representatives of the Jewish communities of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela and Mexico; the Federation of Communities of Central American and Panama Jews; the Latin American Zionist Council and the Federation of Latin American Zionist University Students.
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