Foreign Minister Abba Eban has returned here from a four day official visit to Italy where he conferred with Premier Mariano Rumor and Foreign Minister Aldo Moro and was visited by a Papal representative at his hotel in Rome. Mr. Eban told newsmen on his arrival Friday at the airport that the dialogue between the Vatican and Israel has been enhanced by his meeting with Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, Vatican Secretary for Public Affairs, who informed him of Pope Paul VI’s keen desire for peace and the preservation of religious values in the Middle East. He said the Monsignor assured him that the Pope’s interest was in no way political. Mr. Eban said that while Italy was ready to offer its services to reach peace in the area it is in no way prepared to act as a mediator of the conflict.
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