875.01/10–3145: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:45 p.m.]
3719. Recognition of Albanian Government.
Replying to my letter of October 15, (Embassy’s 3571 October 1749) [Page 66] Vyshinski50 wrote October 30 stating that his Government considered it desirable and timely to enter upon diplomatic relations with the present Government of Albania and was ready to associate itself with the American and British Governments in making known to Hoxha decision of the three Governments to recognize the existing Provisional Government of Albania. Vyshinski stated that in any case his Government agreed that there was no reason for postponement of this recognition.
Vyshinski went on to state that his Government believes that there were no grounds for demanding that Albanian Government assume any obligations to Allied Governments regarding method of conducting coming elections. He stated that this was all the more true as had been noted in my letter of October 15, electoral law adopted by Albanian anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation on its own initiative, provided adequate guarantee for free and democratic election.
To Department 3719, repeated London 550.
- Not printed; it reported that a letter presenting the Department’s proposals regarding the recognition of the Albanian Government had been sent to the Soviet Foreign Commissariat on October 17 (875.01/10–1745).↩
- Audrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩