The Soviet Ambassador to Brazil, Sergei Mikhailov, refused yesterday to receive a local Jewish delegation protesting the treatment of Jews in Soviet Russia. The delegation, representing the Confederation of Brazilian Jews, intended to present him with a document citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination. A spokesman for the Confederation said the document was mailed to the Soviet Embassy after the delegation was turned away. He said the Confederation would bring the matter of Soviet treatment of the Jews to the attention of Brazil’s Foreign Minister.
(In Mexico City, leaders of Mexican Jewry tried to confer recently with the local Soviet ambassador but he refused to receive them to talk about the petition by 18 Jewish families from Soviet Georgia to leave for Israel. The memorandum of the delegation was published in the Mexican press in order to explain the situation of Soviet Jewry to the Mexican people.)
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