…SENDS CHERNOMYRDIN TO FUNERAL.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 128

Yeltsin also announced he was sending Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to represent Russia at Rabin’s burial on Monday on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl. "We have lost a friend who did much while being at the head of the government and state," Chernomyrdin was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying to

reporters.

Deputy PM Says Yeltsin Looked Fine.