The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, currently in session here considering various proposals looking toward the elimination of racial and religious bias throughout the world, today heard a veiled but pointed attack against the Soviet Union’s policy of discriminating against Jews in the USSR.
The attack came from Enrique Carbo, legal advisor to the delegation from Ecuador. Under the rules of the Commission’s procedures, he did not mention any country by name. But he obviously aimed at the USSR as his target when he told the Commission it must study “the situation of minorities in multi-national states. ” “Some countries, ” he said, Prevent minorities from exercising their religious rights and rights of worship. Such minorities, he noted, “have no possibility of complaining, despite the desperate discrimination to which they are subjected.”
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