The seafarers section of the International Transport Workers Federation appealed to the United Arab Republic Government to honor its international undertakings by renouncing action against ships in the Suez Canal and placing reliance on the procedures of the United Nations,
In a resolution approved by the seafarers section at a conference concluded here yesterday, the delegates called upon seafarers throughout the world “including those of the Arab countries” to support this appeal by addressing themselves to the United Arab Republic Government in similar terms and by urging their own governments to make representations to the same end.
The conference also rejected as “totally inadequate” the Justification of international interference with neutral shipping on the grounds of a state of war between Israel and Egypt.
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