THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 28, 1969-15

Soviets Suffer Setback in UN;
Israel Statement Left in Report

GENEVA (JTA) — The Soviet
and Ukrainian delegations to the
United Nations Human Rights
Commission suffered a defeat last
Saturday when the unit rejected
their efforts to delete from its
final report a statement by the
Israeli delegate attacking the mis-
treatment of Jews in the Soviet
Union.
The Communist representatives
were obviously disturbed by the
statement of Judge Zeev W.
Zeltner of Tel Aviv which con-
trasted the rights granted all
ethnic minorities in the USSR
with the repression of Jews and
demanded that if Soviet Jews
"cannot live like Jews" in Rus-
sia, "let them find a haven else-
where."
The statement charged the USSR
with violating the Human Rights
Convention.
The Soviet delegate demanded
that the statement be deleted
from the final report. Failing that,
he insisted that direct references
to the Soviet Union be deleted and
that the statement be ascribed to
its author because "My country-
men ought to know who smears
them."
Judge Zeltner and his colleague.
Meir Rosenne, argued that such a
procedure would be contrary to
the time-honored reporting system
of the various UN bodies.
When the vote was taken, the
Soviet proposal for deletion was
defeated seven to six with nine
abstentions; the second Soviet pro-I
posal was beaten six to five with
11 abstentions.
•Itoting against deletion in addi-
tion to Israel were the United
States, Britain, France, New Zea-
land, Morocco and Jamaica. The
commission's report will be sub-
mitted to the Economic and Social
Council and eventually to the Gen-

with Judge Zen-
ner s statement intact.
Iraq's treatment of its remain-
ing Jewish population was the
subject of a letter from Israel
Ambassador to the UN Yosef
Tekoah to Karoly Csatorday of
Hungary, this month's Security
Council president.
Tekoah charged that "what the
government of Iraq is trying to do
is to assure itself a free hand to
pursue its barbaric treatment of
the Jews in Iraq by resisting
international scrutiny of its gross
misdeeds. It is understandable,"
the letter went on, "that the deep
and natural concern which these
persecutions arouse among the
Jewish communities in the world,
and notably in Israel, where the
majority of Jews who fled from
previous persecutions in Iraq have
found refuge, should cause em-
barrassment to the government of
Iraq."
Tekoah said the treatment of
Iraq's Jews reflected the Baghdad
regime's attitude toward Israel,
adding that "The government of
Israel cannot remain silent when
political hostility toward itself be-
comes a pretext for cruelty
against Jews simply as Jews."
He rebutted Iraqi charges that
Israel mistreated Arab civilians
living in the occupied territories.
"When the citizens of Iraq, Jews
or non-Jews, begin to enjoy, even
only partially, freedom of move-
ment, freedom of thought and ex-
pression and personal security as
they are enjoyed by those Arab
inhabitants, Iraq will have made
progress toward democracy and
the respect for human rights re-
quired by the UN," Tekoah wrote.

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