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Paris April 7, 1976

Dear Colleague,

The anti-israeli action launched last year
in Geneva will be resumed during the next General Assembly
(May 1976) of the World Health Organization. If the sanctions
requested by the members of the "Automatic Majority" are
voted, the W.H.O. membership of Israel will be suspended.
Needless to say the request is based on fallacious claims,
and the manoeuver is clearly political.

It is desirable that the W.H.O. as well as
UNESCO, be not involved in the game of power politics. One
can easily foresee that such a political action within W.H.O.
would trigger reactions from the medical end scientific
international community.

The victims of this reaction would of course
be W.H.O. itself, and as a counterstroke, the countries
which benefit mostly from its assistance, that is the
developping countries.

The Director-General of W.H.O. has of course
to apply the decisions of the General Assembly. However, the
Director-General can,during the discussion, make the
delegates of the member States aware of their responsability,
responsability towards W.H.O. itself and towards the
community of nations, and especially of developping nations.

It seems therefore important that the
Director-General has the possibilities to bring up the
feelings of the Nobel Laureates in Medicine, of the members
of the Advisory Council for Medical Research,and of the
Experts who are the main springs of the Organization.

If you would agree with this analysis of the
situation, would you be willing to write to the Director-
General of the W.H.O. (1211 Geneva 27 ) at your earliest
convenience, to express your worries and ask him to stave
off what would be a regrettable and harmful event.

Avrd Ll

Andre LWOFF
Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Honorary Professor, Pasteur Institute
President, International Committee against the
Politicization in the U.N. Specialized Agencies

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