- Title: EGYPT: ARAB BOYCOTT CONFERENCE OPENS
- Date: 21st June 1973
- Summary: 1. GV EXT. Arab League HQ (2 shots) 0.05 2. SV INT. Delegates (2 shots) 0.22 3. MV El Mahdi Mahgoub calls for minute silence 0.29 4. SV PAN Delegates stand in silence 0.43 5. SV, GV Mahgoub addresses delegates (5 shots) 1.23 Initials SGM/2209 SGM/2203 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th July 1973 13:00
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- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Country: Egypt
- Reuters ID: LVABSXQNLPXM29SI7OTSVJXONJS8
- Story Text: Representatives of the ten member states of the Arab League met in Cairo on Wednesday (20 June) to consider blacklisting more than 100 foreign firs suspected of dealing with Israel.
The session will last for ten days. The Arab Boycott officials were expected to lift the ban on a number of European and other firms which had produced documents proving that they had ceased operations in Israel.
Before the conference began, its director, Mr. El Mahdi Mahgoub called for a one-minute silence in honour of the Palestinians who lost their lives during the recent trouble in Lebanon.
SYNOPSIS: Mr. Mahgoub outlined the aims of the conference in his opening address. At its session last November, the conference took the blacklist more than twenty British, French , German, Spanish, Italian, Swiss and Swedish firms which had activities with Israel. The session will discus ways to tighten the Arab economic blockade to stop Israeli goods getting through occupied territory into Arab countries.
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