Israel has brokered a diplomatic rapprochement between the Soviet Union and South Africa and was thanked for its efforts, according to a report that appeared Wednesday in the Israeli daily Ma’ariv.
The newspaper quoted sources in the South African Embassy here as saying that South Africa and the Soviet Union would soon open “interest sections” at the Austrian embassies in Moscow and Pretoria respectively.
The embassy sources declined to confirm that Israeli mediation led to the diplomatic move.
But Ma’ariv said Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov thanked Israel for its role when he met last week in London with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
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