Mexico’s Foreign Minister Emilio Rabassa, who arrived here last Thursday, is understood to have discussed today with Foreign Minister Yigal Allon the wording of a communique to be issued Wednesday in which Mexico will reverse its position on the UN General Assembly’s anti-Zionist resolution for which Mexico voted.
Qualified observers here cite several reasons for Mexico’s change of heart the decision to vote for the resolution was, it is reliably learned, President Luis Echeverria’s own, taken against the advice of all his aides. Since the vote, various aides and ministers have kept up pressure on Echeverria to relent–arguing that the vote left Mexico all but Isolated from the Western and democratic world.
In addition, U.S. pressure applied between the Third Committee vote Oct, 10 and the General Assembly vote Nov. 10 proved counterproductive–making the Mexicans more intransigent. But since then it has apparently begun to have the desired effect. Another reason is that the incipient boycott of Mexico by American Jewish and other sympathetic organizations is shaping up as a potentially painful threat to that country’s economy. Thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish tourists have cancelled trips to Mexico.
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