Nikolai T. Fedorenko, the Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, reiterated today Soviet Government charges that “imperialist powers and their agents,” including Israel, are attempting “to meddle with the internal affairs” of Syria.
At a lengthy news conference here, he repeated a number of the anti-Israel charges previously voiced by the Soviet news agency, Tass, including the accusation that, recently “high ranking United States officials held conferences with the government and military staff of Israel.”
“The peoples of the Arab states,” Mr. Fedorenko said, are well aware of the danger to the cause of peace and to their independent development by the new intrigues of the imperialist powers, their reactionary agents in the Middle East and the ruling quarters of Israel, in particular the attempts to meddle with the internal affairs of the Arab Republic of Syria. For its part, the Soviet Union, of course, cannot and will not remain indifferent to the attempts to violate peace in a region located in direct proximity to the borders of the Soviet Union.”
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