WESTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001700240001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 10, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Israeli Exclusion Issue Continues to Trouble
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Israeli Exclusion Issue Continues to Trouble
UNESCO
Little progress is likely to be made toward
improving Israel's relations with the UN Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
when the executive board of that organization
meets next week. Both the Israelis and the UNESCO
leadership are opposing moves--primarily undertaken
by the US--to integrate Israel into a UNESCO
regional group and thus overturn last year's
decision by the general conference to exclude
Israel from regional group membership.
Despite previous indications that he would
support Israel's attendance at an October European
regional group meeting, UNESCO's Director General
recently reversed this commitment and said that
he will not invite Israel to attend the meeting.
The Director-General--a Senegalese Moslem--argued
that Israel has shown no signs of increasing
its cooperation with his organization. The Director
also stated that it was largely due to his influence
that the Israeli expulsion resolution was moderated
at the OAU Kampala meeting, and he considers
this a much more significant accomplishment.
The Israelis, on the other hand, have indicated
their opposition to any moves to integrate them
into the European group through a resolution
of the executive board. They fear that their
admission through this back door method will
lessen US and European pressure on next year's
general conference to reverse its earlier decision.
Moreover, they argue that even if the executive
board recommends Israel's membership, next year's
conference is not bound to follow this recommendation.
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The Israelis, in asking the Belgians last
week not to introduce any resolution seeking
to admit Israel to the European group, showed
concern that the US Congress might seize on a
favorable decision, for instance, as evidence
of progress toward a solution of the problem
sufficient to warrant lifting the Congressional
restriction of US contributions. The Israelis
feel that what is happening to UNESCO because
of its financial plight serves as a warning to
other UN bodies against adopting such measures.
The continuing stalemate on this issue raises
doubts about the UN agency's future. The expulsion
issue has led the US Congress to suspend the
US' annual contribution, which provides for about
25 percent of UNESCO's budget, and the Arab states
who mounted the anti-Israel campaign last.year
have not come through with sufficient loans to
make up for UNESCO's deficit. Some UNESCO officials
are now discussing an extra-ordinary session
of the general conference to try to solve the
problem.
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