MESSAGES TO ISRAELI LEADERS
AUST RALIAL
L PRIME MINISTER 7 June 1974
Press Statement No. 261
MESSAGES TO ISRAELI LEADERS
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, M. P.,
announced today that he had sent messages to the new Israeli
Prime Minister, Mr Rabin and to the outgoing Prime Minister,
Mrs Meir. In his message to Mrs Meir the Prime Minister
praised her for her leadership of Israel during a difficult
period of its history and in particular for the negotiation of
disengagement agreements with Egypt and Syria.
In his message of congratulations to Mr Rabin,
the Prime Minister expressed the hope that the disengagement
agreements would lead to a just and lasting peace.
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