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World Jewish Congress Urges Lithuanian Progress on Property Restitution
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U.S. Newswire
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July 2, 2008
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To: RELIGION EDITORS
Contact: Michael Thaidigsmann of the World Jewish Congress
(Brussels Office), Tel: +32 2 552 09 24; Mob: +32 485 869 584,
press@worldjewishcongress.org
Jewish leaders raise concerns at meeting with Lithuanian PM in
New York
NEW YORK,July 2/PRNewswire-USNewswire/--The World Jewish Congress
has called on the Lithuanian government to urgently address the
negative climate in the country vis-a-vis members of its Jewish
community and to speedily enact legislation allowing for the
restitution of properties seized during the Nazi occupation. At a
meeting in New York attended by leaders of several Jewish
organizations, WJC Secretary General Michael Schneider told
Lithuanian ...