CABLE TO RODMAN/LORD FOR DR. KISSINGER FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-111-4-22-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 20, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUMMARY I U ESS THERE I S A LAST-~M I NUTE H I TC4. A "OLO'SAL
I A E1~x" JI" cOV 1NG BOTH THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL A PFCTS
OF A I"A.O.'SETTLE !ENT WILL RE SIGNED I N V I FNT I AN E TOMORPOW
.AFTERNOON, FEB. VARY 21.? IF THIS TIMETABLE IS KEPT# T41-
CEASEFIRE WILL -I ECOME EFFECTIVE NOON, FE13PUARY 22. END SUMMARY.
1. FOLLOWING IS SCENARIO OF WHAT HAPPENED IN VIENTIANE
FEBRUARY 20 AS REPORTEb: TO DEAN SY PHENO AND CONFIRMED TO
ME OVER THE TELEPHONE RY -FR IME MINISTER I
A. AT THIS MORNING'S CAPINET MEETING AT 10001
CABINET REJECTED SOUPHANOUVONGOS OFFER OF AN UNSIGNED
STRICTLY MILITARY CEASEFIRE PROCLAIMED UNILATERALLY BY EACH
ST OF TO ITS OVN COMBATANTS AND ITS ALLIES. CABINET IN-
STRUCTED PHE!4G TO PROPOSE WRITTEN,CEASEFIPI AGREEMENT
CALLING FOR (1) END TO FIGHTING, ON THE GROUND, ON WATER AND
IN 'TMF .AIRt (1) AN ENP TO HOSTILE MILITARY ACTION= 0)
WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN TROOPS 1 AND (4) AN EXCHANGE OF
pFT90'NE"RS OF ALL NATIONALITIES.
8. AT 1130 THIS MORNING. PH.ENG MET WITH RHOUMI TO
PRESENT FILL REPLY TO SOUPHANOUVONC''S OFFER AND ALSO TO
DISCUSS RLGI COUNTER OFFER. PHOUMI REJECTED RLG PROPOSAL
AND PRENG REJECTED SOUPHANOUVCNG''S OFFER. THE TWO NFGOTIATORF
THEN AGREID TO DISCUSS THE THREE REMAINING OUTSTANDING
ISSUES HOLDING UP THE SIGNING OF A GLOBAL ACCORD. PHENG
AND PHOUMI SETTLED THE OUTSTANDING DIFFERENCES AS FOLLOW51
1. THE RLG WOULr SIGN FOR "THE GOVERNMFJ T
VIENTIANE" (IN THE LAO LANGUAGE THERE IS NO PPF'POStTION
RETWE'EN "GOVERNMENT" AND "VIENTIANE" AND IT WILL FE
I'NT 'R'FSTIbG TO SEE HOW THIS WILL BE TRANSLATED INTO FFENC1,+.. )
'2. THE POSITION OF PRIME MINISTER WILL NOT RE
INCLUGEC IN THE OVERALL COMPLFMENT OF CARINFT PORTFOLIOS,
FROM WHICH THE PATHET LAO AND THEIR ALLIES WILL RECEIVE
FIFTY PERCENT OF TH'F SEATS. NC REPEAT NO VICE F !t TIME tai I N I STF;P
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WILL .RE NAMED.
,3. ON THE TIME FRAMES. THE TWO NEGOTIATORS AGREED
TO 'FORM THE NEW PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNION
WITHIN THIRTY DAYS AFTKR 'THE SIGNING OF THE CEASEFIRE AGREE-
MEN?. WtTHIN SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE FORMATION. OF THAT GOVERNMENT.
ALL 7O`RF IGN FORCES WILL HAVE TO BE WITHDRAWN FROM LAOS.
THUS* FOIL EXAMPLE IF THE NEW GOVERNMENT IS FORMED WITHIN
TEN DAYS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE CEASE'F'IRE ACREEMENTt
FORE ION, FORCES WOULD HAVE TO RE WITHDRAWN !V ITH I N SEVENTY
DAYS. AFTER 'THE SIGNING OF THE CEASEFIRE ,... THE EXCHANGE OF
PRISONERS WOULD ALSO SE COMPLETED WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF THE
F'ORMATI'ON of-TO NEW GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNION.
'Pt 'T'HE PRIME MI:NIST!R HAS GIVEN MIS APPROVAL TO THIS
COMPROMISE AND PHOUMI AND PMENG VILL SEE PRIME MINISTER'' AT
1600 `THIS ' :AFTERNOON TO INITIAL -DRAFT AGREEMENT. A SPECIAL
CARINET~'KEETING HAS BEEN CALLED FOR 1700 TO DISCUSS THE
TER S OF "TIFF CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT. PHENG SAID THAT IF EVERY"
THING GOES SMOOTHLY~# EHE TWO NEGOTIATORS WOULD MEET TOMORROW
MORNING TO PREPARE `THE "FI'NAL TEXT OF THE Apt l?EEMFNT IN LAO
WHICH WOULD BE FORMALLY SIGNED BY THE TWO NEGOTIATORS I N
PRESENCE OF A NUMBER OF DIGNITARIES TOMORROW* FEBRUARY 21p
PROBABLY IN THE AFTERNOON. 11 THIS TIMETAELE IS KEPT.
CEASEFIRE WOULD ENTER INFO FORCE AT 1200 HOURS LOCAL TIME
TRUPSt AY, FEBRUARY .P2.
a. PRIME 'MINISTER HAS PROMISED TO KEEP ME INFORMED AND
DEAN HAS :APP'OINTMENT WITH PHENG LATER IN THE E'VE'NING.
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