Israel diplomatic representatives in Moscow, Paris and London have handed to the governments to which they are accredited copies of an Israeli side memoire outlining Israel’s interests in the forthcoming Berlin conference of Big Four Foreign Ministers on the future of Germany, it was announced here today. A similar move by Israeli representatives in Washington is expected momentarily.
In Moscow, it was stated, Israeli Minister Shmuel Eliashiv called on Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister A. Zorin and, besides giving him the memorandum on Israeli claims for reparations from East Germany and its interest in seeing the Bonn reparations payments continue in the event Germany is unified, informed him that Israel had assigned an observer to Berlin to present Israel’s views to the Big Four Foreign Ministers, Mr. Zorin expressed no opposition to the idea of an Israeli observer and promised to study the aide memoire.
In various Western capitals it was reported unofficially that the Big Powers are inclined to support Israel’s claims. No official reaction was available anywhere.
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