The first Continental Conference of Israeli-Latin American Institutes of Cultural Exchange, attended by intellectuals, statesmen, high-ranking Catholic clergy and writers from all over Latin America, concluded its three days of deliberations with the release of “The Caracas Declaration” calling for the peoples of Latin America to support decisively the consolidation of Israel as an independent state in the concert of nations.
The Conference was convened in Caracas, Venezuela under the chairmanship of Ambassador Jacob Tsur, who had represented Israel in the Argentine, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The Caracas Declaration expresses the hope that Israel, as a nation that has renewed its independent life in its ancestral homeland, will be allowed to contribute to the social and cultural progress of humanity in a climate of freedom and enjoying recognized and secured borders in the land of its ancestors, where the common values of the Judeo-Christian civilizations were born. The Conference also supported the agreements of disengagements of the forces of Israel, Egypt and Syria and expressed the hope that they will lead to a definite peace in the near future by way of direct negotiations between the interested parties.
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