The United States said in a note to the Soviet Union today that if the Moscow Government sincerely wants to contribute to Middle Eastern peace “it could do so by working constructively within the United Nations for the solution of fundamental problems in the area, among which the Arab-Israeli dispute is outstanding.”
The note was delivered in Moscow by U.S. Charge d’Affaires Richard H. Davis in reply to a Soviet note of April 19 concerning the Middle East. The United States noted the Soviet expression of concern about conditions in the Middle East in view of the proximity of this area to the Soviet Union. The U.S. note said:
“It is just those countries Iying closest to the Soviet Union which have been most vigorously attacked in the recent Soviet campaign of threat and intimidation aimed at the legitimate efforts for self-defense undertaken by the nations in question. Public attacks upon governments of these states, together with subversive intervention in their domestic affairs, give them good cause to seek the strengthening of their security, as certain states in the Middle East are now doing in concert with each other.”
Opposition was expressed by the United States to the use of force in the settlement of disputes in the Middle East as well as elsewhere.
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