Israel and Czechoslovakia signed a trade agreement in Prague yesterday, it was officially announced today. The pact provides that $8,400,000 worth of Czech goods be imported by the Jewish state while Israel will send Czechoslovakia $2,800,000 in citrus products, pharmaceuticals and other goods. The Czechs will send Israel iron and steel goods, food and glassware.
Moshe Bartuv, deputy director-general of the Israel Foreign Ministry’s economic division, left today for Ankara to start Israel-Turkish negotiations prior to conclusion of a trade agreement between the two countries, it was announced today.
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