The Soviet Chargé d’Affaires called on me at his own request on the morning of the 16th December.

He said that he had come on the instructions of his Government to express the congratulations of the Soviet Government on our election to membership of the United Nations and to say that the Soviet delegation at the United Nations looked forward to co-operating with our delegation in the pursuit of peace and the other aims of the United Nations. I thanked the Chargé d’Affaires for this intimation and said that I would convey it to the Minister for External Affairs in Dublin.

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