Foreign Ministry officials said today that there would be no visa problems for three Soviet representatives who are reported to be planning to come to Israel for a conference of the New Communist Party-sponsored Soviet-Israel Friendship League opening Jan. 21, The three have reportedly applied for Israeli visas at the Dutch Embassy in Moscow which handles Israeli affairs in the Soviet Union in the absence of diplomatic relations with Israel. They have been identified only by their surnames.
One, identified as Gilliloff, a professor at Moscow University, Is reportedly Jewish. The other two have been identified as Gorshakov, deputy chairman of the Russian Federation of Friendship and Cultural Societies, and Kashoyan, a journalist apparently of Armenian origin. Ministry official noted that visas have been issued in the past to citizens of the Soviet Union and other countries with which Israel has no diplomatic ties to attend meetings and international conferences.
Israelis noted that Russians have been invited to attend numerous international scientific and other gatherings in Israel but invariably failed to appear. They said the Soviet authorities seemed interested only in Communist-sponsored events.
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