A leader of Peru’s ruling Accion Popular party has firmly repudiated the vote by the Peruvian delegate to the recent World Interparliamentarian Conference in Geneva in favor of an Iraqi resolution affirming the “Zionism is racism” resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1975.
Javier Alva Orlandini, Secretary-General of Accion Popular, told a delegation of leaders of Peru’s Jewish community that the vote represented the “personal attitude” of the delegate, a member of Parliament, who did not consult with the government and does not reflect the official position of Accion Popular.
Orlandini who is Second Vice President of Peru, received three leaders of the Associacion Judia Del Peru, the central representative body of the Peruvian Jewish community and a World Jewish Congress affiliate, at his office in the National Parliament.
The delegation consisted of Zurik Radzinsky, president of the Associacion Judia; Eduardo Bigio, co-chairman of the WJC’s Third World Commission; and Yaacov Hasson, director of the organization’s human relations office.
Radzinsky said the main purpose of the meeting was to express Peruvian Jewry’s concern over the vote which, he pointed out, was in contradiction to the Peruvian position in 1975 when it abstained in the Zionism-racism vote.
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