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TELEGRAM OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE USSR V.M. MOLOTOV TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ISRAIL M. SHERTOKU

May 18, 1948

I acknowledge receipt of your telegram of May 16, in which you inform the Government of the USSR about the proclamation on the basis of the UN General Assembly resolution of November 29, 1947 creation of an independent State of Israel in Palestine and ask for recognition by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of the State of Israel and its Provisional Government *.

I hereby inform you that the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has made a decision on the official recognition of the State of Israel and its Provisional Government.

The Soviet Government hopes that the creation by the Jewish people of their sovereign state will serve the cause of strengthening peace and security in Palestine and the Middle East and expresses confidence in the successful development of friendly relations between the USSR and the State of Israel.

AVP RF, f. 89, op. 1, p. 1, d. 4, l. five.

USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs

V. Molotov

Publ .: International life. - 1998. - No. 10. - P. 91.