Thailand will give “sympathetic consideration” to moves to rescind the U.N. General Assembly’s 1975 resolution denigrating Zionism as a form of racism, the Thai foreign minister told a visiting World Jewish Congress official Tuesday in Bangkok.
But in his conversation with WJC Co-Chairman Isi Leibler, Foreign Minister Arsa Sarasin pointed out that his government is subject to constraints, the WJC reported here.
Thailand abstained when the resolution was voted on in 1975.
Leibler, who is from Melbourne, Australia, was accompanied to the Foreign Ministry by the Australian ambassador to Thailand, Richard Butler. Butler said his government is prepared to cosponsor any U.N. resolution aimed at expunging the offending resolution from the record.
Leibler said he pointed out that the resolution is morally indefensible and insulting to Jews throughout the world.
Leibler, owner of a travel agency based in Melbourne, visited Thailand in the course of an official mission to win Asian support for recision of the resolution.
According to the WJC, Leibler has had encouraging responses from China and India.
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