BAHRAIN: Israel has been recruiting manpower from India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines to replace striking Arab workers in the occupied territories, Kuwait based English Daily “Arab Times” has reported.
Ibrahim Al Bghanim, Kuwait’s director general of public customs is quoted by the paper as saying that the Damascus based Israel boycott office had referred the issue to the Arab League council.
Meanwhile Tass reports from Moscow quoting foreign ministry statement, “the Soviet Union is deeply concerned about pronouncements by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and other officials as regards the settlement of Jewish immigrants, including those from the Soviet Union, on occupied Arab territories.”
The practical implementation of such plans runs counter to generally recognized norms of the international law, leads to an escalation of tension, increases confrontation and extremism in the Middle East, the statement adds.
“It creates additional obstacles to a peaceful settlement and undermines recent efforts to settle the Arab Israeli conflict and to find a just solution to the Palestinian problem.”
The United Nations has repeatedly denounced illegal Israeli settlements on occupied territories, the statement points out and notes that the Soviet Union has never recognized the 1967 Israeli occupation of Arab territories, including Palestinian ones. The USSR considers this occupation illegal and demands that it be stopped in accordance with the corresponding U.N resolutions.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 16, 1990
