The Israeli Labor Party expressed sorrow and shock today over the military coup in Chile and the death, apparently by suicide, of President Salvador Allende Gossens. The message was cabled by Labor Party Secretary General Aharon Yadlin to the chairman of the Socialist International in Vienna, and to the representative of the Chilean Radical Party at the International, which had been part of President Allende’s left-wing coalition.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban said at today’s Cabinet meeting that the Foreign Ministry is waiting for more detailed information on events in Chile from the Israeli Embassy in Santiago. The Foreign Ministry received its first communication from the Chilean military junta yesterday stating that it was now the legal government of Chile.
Meanwhile the Chilean Ambassador, Carlos Diemer, informed the Foreign Ministry today that he has appointed the Chilean Consul, Julio Barrenechea, as interim charge d’affaires. Deimer had been ordered earlier by the military junta in Santiago to hand over his duties to Barrenechea but had declined to do so at first.
The new Israeli left-wing faction, Moked, urged the government over the weekend not to recognize the military regime in Santiago.
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