No government can be bound by a promise extorted by violence,” the Council of Europe said Tuesday in response to Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kerisky’s decision to close down transit facilities for Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel. In a resolution drafted before Israeli Premier Golda Meir’s departure for Vienna, the Assembly insisted on the “necessity for Council members to resist all attempts at extortion of political decisions by criminal threats and acts of violence.” The resolution was proposed by German delegate Erik Blumenfeld, president of the political commission. The Council is a 17-member body having only consultative status.
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