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ANIERICAN
SOCIETY
ashington — The
Soviet Union's Am-
bassador to the
United States, Yuri Dubinin,
has expressed hope that his
country and Israel will re-
establish diplomatic relations
in the not-too-distant future.
"I hope soon," Dubinin said
in fluent, albeit heavily ac-
cented, English. "Exactly
when, I don't know. It de-
pends on Israel."
The ambassador, a smooth
and experienced diplomat,
discussed the Arab-Israeli
peace process last week with
five reporters at the ornate
Soviet Embassy here.
Earlier, at a brief ceremony
at the embassy, Dubinin re-
ceived a silver menorah from
Lubavitch Rabbi Noson
Gurary, who has proposed
that a portion of the original
town - of Lubavitch in the
Soviet Union be restored to
look like a "shtetl." Gurary, a
regional director for an up-
state New York Lubavitch
movement, has made several
trips to the Soviet Union.
Over the past year, he has
discussed his idea with Soviet
Foreign Ministry and
Religious Affairs officials in
Moscow.
"We need your help,"
Gurary, an energetic man,
said in pressing his case with
the ambassador.
"We will try to help,"
Dubinin replied cautiously.
Underscoring the Soviet
Union's new openness, or
glasnost, the ambassador and
several other Soviet diplo-
mats answered questions
about Israel and the Middle
East.
Asked what Israel must do
before the Soviets restored
diplomatic ties, Dubinin went
out of his way to insist that
his government was not put-
ting forward any specific "con-
ditions or demands," and sug-
gested the restored relations
could be discussed as part of
the Arab-Israeli peace
negotiations.
"Remember," he recalled,
"the Soviet Union was at the
birth of Israel as a state. We
played a very important, de-
cisive role in the process
leading to the creation of this
state."
Dubinin was referring to
the Soviet Union's decision in
1947 to support the UN Par-
tition Resolution calling for
an Arab and a Jewish state in
Palestine. Immediately fol-
lowing Israel's Declaration of
Independence, the Soviets
recognized the new state. And
during Israel's War of In- .
dependence, the Soviets gave
Czechoslovakia the green
light to sell badly-needed
weapons to Israel that helped
Israel survive the war and
eventually sign armistice
agreements with its Arab
neighbors.
"We are not responsible for
the absence of relations,"
Dubinin insisted, even
though the Soviets had
severed ties with Israel dur-
ing the 1967 Six-Day War.
"This is not a condition," he
"All the people
who desire to
leave, who have
received a visa,
are absolutely free
to buy a ticket to
any direction."
emphasized. "This is not a de-
mand. But -a Middle East set-
tlement is very important to
all states."
Explaining Soviet policy
toward the peace process, he
called for an international
conference which would in-
clude the five permanent
members of the UN Security
Council. Asked whether the
Soviet Union and the United
States alone could cosponsor
such a gathering — without
the direct involvement of
China, Britain and France —
Dubinin replied that the in-
volvement of all five was
preferable.
"All five are better," he said.
"We think it could assure
more authority to this pro-
cess. We need support for the
participants of the conference.
The preparation should
begin. That doesn't depend on
the Soviet Union."
Dubinin welcomed what he
called an important "evolu-
tion" of thinking in the
United States on the need for
such an international con-
ference and then insisted that
there was even a similar
evolution now underway in-
side Israel itself.
He was referring to recent
highly-publicized comments
made by Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir suggesting
that some sort of superpower
— and perhaps even United
Nations — sponsorship could
kick off direct Arab-Israeli
peace negotiations.
Dubinin said his country
and Israel are working on im-
proving and enlarging the
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