Both the State Department and the Soviet embassy here today said they had no information confirming a Damascus report broadcast by the Cairo radio this morning to the effect that the Soviet Government had denounced to Washington and London “Israel’s bold aggression on the Syrian frontier.”
The Cairo broadcast quoted the Syrian Foreign Minister as announcing in Damascus that Moscow also told Washington and London that “in the opinion of the Soviet Union, every new Israeli aggression to which Syria is exposed is nothing but a conspiracy approved by Britain and America against the independence of Syria.”
A spokesman for the Soviet embassy here told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the embassy has no information on the reported Soviet expression mentioned in the Arab broadcast. At the State Department, the J.T.A. was told that no word has been received there from the Soviet Union in which Moscow expressed itself as mentioned in Damascus report.
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