An ailing member of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce arbitration tribunal whose illness has several times held up Israel’s suit for more than $2,000,000 in damages resulting from Soviet breaching of an oil-for-citrus pact has resigned because of ill health, it was learned here today.
Since the judge, M. Ramzaytsev, was chosen by Israel from an available panel, Israel will now have to make another selection. It is hoped here that this aspect of the case will be gotten through with shortly and the hearings resumed.
Israel’s case is based on the fact that the Soviet oil exporting trust abrogated its contract after the Sinai operation on the grounds that the USSR Government had ordered it to. Israel holds that the company and the government are in fact one and therefore responsible for damages.
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