EXCHANGE OF TELEGRAMS BETWEEN THE FOREIGN MINISTER DEJ1 OF ISRAEL M. SHERTOK AND THE MINISTER FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE USSR V.M. MOLOTOV

Stalin, Soviets and Israeli Question

EXCHANGE OF TELEGRAMS BETWEEN THE FOREIGN MINISTER DEJ1 OF ISRAEL M. SHERTOK AND THE MINISTER FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE USSR V.M. MOLOTOV

1. Telegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel M. Shertok

May 24, 1948

I have the honor to express to you the deepest satisfaction with which my government took note of the message on the official recognition of the State of Israel by the government of the USSR, kindly conveyed to us in your telegram dated May 18. The Government of the State of Israel fully shares the wishes so generously expressed by you and reaffirms its firm hope, based on the events that led to the creation of our government, that the most friendly relations can be established between the State of Israel and the Soviet Union. To this end, we ask you to deign to inform us whether you agree that the State of Israel immediately establish its mission in Moscow, consisting of an envoy or chargé d'affaires and a consul general, and that at the same time a Soviet mission be established in Tel Aviv of the same rank.

On behalf of the Provisional Council of State of Israel

Moshe Shertok,

Foreign Secretary

AVP RF, f. For - Israel, op. /, p. /, d. 2, l. /.