Foreign Minister Moshe Arens has flown to Bulgaria, where he will sign protocols Thursday marking the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between that country and Israel.
It will be the fourth Eastern European country to restore ties with Israel broken after the 1967 Six-Day War.
Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia already have done so. And Yugoslavia, which was never under Moscow’s domination, may soon follow suit.
As Arens was airborne to Sofia, Deputy Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Foreign Ministry officials were meeting in Jerusalem with Mila Zupan, an official emissary from Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital.
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