Dr. Shmuel Eliashev, director of the East European division of the Israel Foreign Ministry, who is now on a tour of Balkan capitals, arrived here last night by air. He was welcomed by a representative of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.
Dr. Eliashev later held a one-hour conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister Prof. Eugene Kamenev. The meeting was described as friendly, although no announcements as to the details of the talks were issued. The Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister later tendered a reception in honor of Dr. Eliashev, which was attended by leading Bulgarian officials.
The chief aim of Dr. Eliashev’s visit here at this time, reliable quarters state, is to arrange for the exchange of diplomatic officials between Israel and Bulgaria. An Israel commercial delegation to Bulgaria has already been appointed, Dr. Eliashev revealed today, and is awaiting a formal invitation to come to Sofia.
The visiting Israel official also had a talk with Prof. Jacques Nathan, president of the Bulgarian Jewish Consistory and vice-president of the Committee for Science, Arts and Culture, on the possibilities of commercial intercourse between the Jewish state and Bulgaria. Prof. Nathan told Dr. Eliashev that he would like to have several prominent Israelis sent to Bulgaria to tell Bulgarian Jews of present conditions in the Jewish state.
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