In a slashing attack on Israel’s rights and an assertion of a continued state of belligerency, Saudi Arabia today Insisted that the Gulf of Akaba remains a closed inland Arab waterway. This position was outlined today by chief Saudi Arabian delegate Ahmed Shukairy at an 87-nation conference on world maritime nations being held here.
Mr. Shukairy also said that the presence of Arab delegates must not be construed as recognition in any manner of Israel. He challenged the assumptions that the laws of the sea must be kept by states which do not recognize each other. The doctrine of freedom of the seas together with freedom of navigation and commerce, he added, must all “give way to the exigencies of war.”
(The Dutch vessel Emma Folder dropped anchor off the Israeli port of Akaba last night, inaugurating a new Dutch shipping service between Elath and African ports. The line, owned by Dutch Senator Henryk Villemse, will operate between Elath and Massawa, Djibouti and Mombassa. The S.S. Berman, a 2, 000 ton freighter is due at Elath shortly to open a service between that port and South Africa.)
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