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Telegram of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V.M. Molotov

May 25, 1948

I acknowledge receipt of your telegram dated May 24, 1948, in which you ask the consent of the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the State of Israel to immediately establish its mission in Moscow and that at the same time a Soviet mission be established in Tel Aviv.

I hereby have the honor to inform you that the Soviet government agrees to the establishment of a mission of the State of Israel in Moscow headed by an envoy or chargé d'affaires, including the performance of consular functions, and, in turn, is ready to establish a Soviet mission in Tel Aviv.

V. Molotov

Foreign Minister: l

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

On the document of the litter: “Comrade. Stalin. For approval. 25. V ".

AVP RF, f. 06, op. 10, p. 46, d. 622, l. 17.