Two Countries
Break Pledges

Washington (JTA) — Citing
statistics compiled by the
U.S. Commerce Department,
the World Jewish Congress
charged this week that
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
have not abided by their
pledges to stop participating
in the Arab boycott of corn-
panies doing business with
Israel.
The WJC said that Com-
merce Department figures
show Kuwait made over 700
boycott-related requests to
U.S. companies since June,
when the Arab emirate an-
nounced it would stop its
participation of the so-called
secondary boycott of com-
panies here and abroad do-
ing business with the Jewish
state.
WJC issued a statement
urging Washington "to take
immediate measures so that
both Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia live up to their
pledges to put an end to their
shameful compliance with
the Arab blacklist."
The U.S. State Depart-
ment said last spring that
both countries had pledged
to end their participation in
the secondary boycott of
Israel, which harms U.S.
and other companies doing
business with Israel.
Under U.S. law, if a par-
ticipating country requests
an American company to
provide boycott-related in-
formation, the company
must report such requests to
the U.S. government.
In 1993, there were 8,660
such requests — mostly from
Arab countries — reported
by American companies, the
WJC said.
Of the 8,660 requests,
2,011 were from Kuwait and
1,605 from Saudi Arabia, the
group reported.
Efforts to end the primary
Arab boycott of Israel and
the secondary boycott of
companies doing business
with the Jewish state have
taken on new urgency here
in recent months.
• But Arab countries have
been reluctant to part with
the longtime boycott, which
has been in effect since
before the 1948 founding of
Israel.
The issue of Kuwait's par-
ticipation in the secondary
boycott has been a par-
ticularly sensitive one for
some American officials be-
cause Washington came
readily to Kuwait's defense
against Iraq in the Persian
Gulf War and many Ameri-
can lives were lost in
Kuwait's defense. El

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