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12 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1989
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zation. There are about 300
U.N. meetings a year in
Geneva.
The 70-year-old Abram,
who recently stepped down as
chairman of both the Presi-
dents Conference and the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry, said that among the
issues he will be dealing with
are two that he has long been
interested in, human rights
and health.
In the Johnson administra-
tion, he served as U.S. repre-
sentative to the U.N. Corn-
mission on Human Rights
from 1965 to 1968.
President Carter named
him as chairman of the Presi-
dent's Commission for the
Study of Ethical Problems in
Medicine and Biomedical and
Behavioral Research in 1979,
and under President Reagan
he served as vice chairman of
the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights from 1983 to 1986.
A Georgia-born New York
lawyer, Abram was president
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee from 1963 to 1968 and
president of Brandeis Univer-
sity from 1968 to 1970. He
was also president of the
United Negro College Fund
from 1970 to 1979.
Jerusalem (JTA) Nessim
Gaon, president of the World
Sephardi Federation, recent-
ly urged the Israeli govern-
ment to open a dialogue with
"any of the Arabs . . . who has
a mandate to negotiate for
peace," including Palestine
Liberation Organization
chairman Yassir Arafat.
Gaon, a businessman and
philanthropist who lives in
Geneva, wields considerable
influence among Sephardic
Jews worldwide.
Gaon, addressing the open-
ing meeting of the federa-
tion's presidium here, called
on the government to "take
risks for peace."
He warned that "If we con-
tinue to put off making peace
with the Arab states, we on-
ly threaten ourselves, our
family, our land.
"We must act before world
public opinion acts for us,"
Gaon said, observing that
"over 50 countries already
recognize Mr. Arafat's claim
to sovereignty and favor a
dialogue for peace.
"We should leave no stone
unturned, lose no opportuni-
ty, go any distance in the
search for peace. We must
break the myth and false im-
Shamir, Rabin
age that our people are in-
Nix Proposal
transigent, apathetic and op-
posed to dialogue with the
Tel Aviv (JTA) A proposal to
Arabs," he said.
incorporate the Fourth
The presidium was also ad-
Geneva Convention into
dressed by Foreign Minister
Israeli law has been rejected
Moshe Arens, who justified
by Prime Minister Yitzhak
Israel's refusal to talk to the
Shamir and Defense Minister
PLO because "If we talk to
Yitzhak Rabin, A l
them, that would be a proof Hamishmar
reported
that terrorism is worthwhile
recently.
and that would give rise to
The 1949 convention pro-
further violence."
vides for the protection of
Arens insisted that "the
civilians in occupied areas in
main problem is the unwill-
time of war.
ingness of our neighbors to
Rabin maintained that
talk to us.
enacting it into law would
"It's hard to envision peace pre-determine the status of
until Israel will sign peace
the West Bank and Gaza
treaties with Syria and her
Strip, the territories Israel
other neighbors," he said.
. has administered since it cap-
tured them in the 1967 Six-
Day War.
Abram Named
The two ministers were
responding to legislation sug-
To U.N. Post
gested by Amnon Rubinstein,
Washington (JTA) — Presi-. a Knesset member of the op-
dent Bush has appointed
position Center-Shinui
Morris Abram, the former
Movement.
chairman of the Conference of
Rabin, in a written reply,
Presidents of Major American
said that "the Israel govern-
Jewish Organizations, as the
ment's stand with regard to
U.S. ambassador to the Euro-
the areas of Judea, Samaria
pean headquarters of the
and Gaza is that their final
United Nations in Geneva.
status will be determined on-
Abram said he was "very
ly through political negotia-
pleased by the appointment."
tions, and that Israel does not
The U.N. headquarters in
consider itself occupiers."
Geneva houses such agencies
He said passage of such a
as the U.N. Commission on
bill by the Knesset would re-
Human Rights, the Interna-
quire the courts to decide the
tional Labor Organization
question of Israeli sovereign-
and the World Health Organi-
ty in the territories.