Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban arrived in Warsaw last night and began immediately three days of conference with Israeli envoys in East European bloc countries on improving Israel’s relations with that bloc.
The Foreign Minister said he was “glad to arrive in a friendly country to which we are tied with close bonds forged by the common tragedy of the Nazi occupation.” A Polish Foreign Ministry representative was at the airport, as were Israeli envoys to the Soviet Union, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
In the first Israel diplomatic parley behind the Iron Curtain, the envoys studied means of improving Israel’s ties with East European countries. Each envoy was scheduled to report on relations between Israel and his country of representation.
The Polish press carried a number of articles welcoming the Israeli diplomats and crediting Mr. Eban with desiring to improve Israel’s relations with the Eastern bloc countries. The Foreign Minister and the envoys scheduled a visit to the site of the Auschwitz death camp. Mr. Eban is scheduled to meet with Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki.
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