The arbitration hearings on Israel’s claim for over $2, 000, 000 in damages resulting from Soviet unilateral cancellation of a citrus-for-off agreement have been postponed again in Moscow, it was reported here today. Though Israeli officials have declined comment on the development, observers here have begun to suspect Soviet delaying moves designed to avoid a ruling by the Moscow Chamber of Commerce court of arbitration, the body which has jurisdiction of disputes under the Isreal-Soviet trade pact.
After only a few days of the hearing late last year, the proceedings were halted by the announced illness of one of the three judges. Since then two new dates have been set and later abandoned. Last week Israeli counsel again flew to Moscow for hearings scheduled to begin yesterday, but once again the Soviet authorities entered a sick plea.
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