Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev was quoted today as having declared that the Soviet Union supported the United Arab Republic on the Suez Canal issue and believed that the UAR was entitled to deny Israeli shipping passage through the waterway.
The Soviet leader was quoted further in an interview with Major Salah Salem, one of President Nasser’s top progagandists, as expressing his readiness to supply the UAR with the newest Soviet weapons and to contribute materially to Egypt’s economic development. The interview appeared in the Cairo daily, Al Gumuriyah.
According to this interview. Mr. Khrushchev told Major Salem that the Soviet Union “sympathizes” with the Palestine Arab refugees and is determined “to have nothing to do with Zionist interests.”
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