MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION

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• Publication Date: June 14, 1973
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UNDERSTANDING ON LAOS
1. On the basis of respect for theprinciples of
the 1962 Geneva Agreement on Laos and the Agreement on
restoring peace and achieving national concord
signed on February 21, 1973, the United States of
America and the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam reaffirm
their strong desire that the current negotiations between
the two Lao parties will promptly come to a success.
2. The United States of America and the Democratic
Republic of Viet-Nam have been informed by the Lao parties
that:
in Laos
(a) The formation of the Provisional Government
of National Union would be achieved by July 1, 1973 at
the latest.
The U.S. and DRV will exert their best efforts
in that direction.
(b) Within a period of no more than 60 days
after the date of the establishment of the Provisional
Government of National Union, the withdrawal from Laos
of all foreign military personnel, regular and irregular
'troops, and the dismantling of military and paramilitary
organizations of foreign countries, including the
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"special forces" organized, equipped trained and
commanded by foreign countries, must be completed.
(c) After the return of all persons regardless
of their nationality, who were captured, and those
who were imprisoned for cooperating with the other
side in wartime, each Lao party has the obligation
of getting and supplying information to the other
party about the missing in action in Laos.
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UNDERSTANDING ON CAMBODIA
1. On the basis of respect for the principles of the
1954 Geneva Agreement on Cambodia that recognizes the
Cambodian people's fundamental national rights, i.e., the
independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity
of Cambodia, the United States of America and the Democratic
Republic of Viet-Nam reaffirm that the settlement of the
Cambodian problem falls under the sovereignty of the
Cambodians.
2. The United States of America and the Democratic
Republic of Viet-Nam reaffirm the obligations of Article 20
of the Paris Agreement. All foreign troops, military
advisers, and military personnel shall be withdrawn from
Cambodia, as required by Article 20(b) of the Agreement.
3. The United States of America and the Democratic
Republic of Viet-Nam will exert their best efforts to
bring about a peaceful settlement of the Cambodian problem.
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The United States side is prepared to support a. proposal for the
suspension of UNCUTIK at the forthcoming meeting of the United
Nations General Assembly. The U.S. side understands that the
Government of the Republic of Korea is prepared to make such
a motion for suspension. The U.S. side will ex.ert its best efforts
to have this proposal framed to call for the dissolution of UNCURK.
If the proposal for dissolution cannot be achieved, the proposal
for suspension will be made at this next meeting of the United
Nations General Assembly. The U.S. side then will seek to have
a proposal for dissolution presented to the General Assembly at
its next following meeting.. This is the two-step process to which
the U.S. side has referred. The U.S. side understands that
neither the suspension or dissolution of UNCURK shall in any way
call into question the validity of its original establishment or of
its original purposes.
After this has been completed, and before the 1974 session of the
United.7:arions General Assembly, the U.S. side will be prepared
to discuss with the PRC side ways in which the question of the
United Nations Command might be resolved. The U.S. side does
not believe the present moment to be an appropriate time for such
discussions.
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BILATERAL COOPERATION
The US-USSR bilateral agreements to be signed during General Secretary
Brezhnev's visit to the United States embody the following understandings.
--US-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in Studies of the World Ocean
The agreement recognizes that oceanographic research provides
information and data of great importance not only to the US and USSR
but to all people. Under the agreement, a US-USSR Joint Committee
on Cooperation in World Ocean Studies is to be established to oversee
the joint planning, development and implementation of US-USSR basic
and applied ocean research programs. Cooperative projects will
initially deal with ocean-atmosphere interaction, ocean currents,
geochemistry and marine chemistry, deep sea drilling, biological
productivity and intercalibration and standardization of oceanographic
instrumentation and methods.
--US-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Transportation
The agreement expresses the belief that the combined efforts of the
two countries can contribute to more rapid and efficient solutions of
transportation problems than would be possible through separate parallel
national efforts. A US-USSR Joint Committee on Cooperation in Transpor-
tation will be established to oversee implementation. Initially, the focus
of bilateral cooperation will be on such projects as bridge and tunnel
construction, including the problems of cold climate construction; rail-
road transport; civil aviation, including cooperative projects aimed at
increasing efficiency and safety; marine transport; and automobile trans-
port, including problems of traffic safety.
--US-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Agriculture
This agreement is still under negotiation as of June 11. With
successful negotiations, the agreement would be as follows.
The agreement recognizes the desirability of expanding in the field of
agricultural research and cooperation as well as the desirability of
laying a stable foundation for an expanded relationship in agricultural
trade. It provides for the establishment of US-USSR Joint Committee
on Agricultural Cooperation. In the research and development field,
cooperation will focus on livestock sciences, mechanization of agriculture,
soil sciences and plant science and entomology. A side letter accompanying
the agreement deals with agricultural economics and trade, in which both
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sides make a commitment to exchange information on current and
forward estimates of production, consumption, demand and trade of
major agricultural products.
--US-USSR Agreement on Contacts, Exchanges and Cooperation
As augmented, this agreement will run for six years and will
provide the overall umbrella for US-Soviet contacts, information
exchanges, cultural activities and bilateral cooperation -- replacing
the earlier two year cultural exchanges agreement. The agreement
includes an annex providing detailed provisions with regard to bilateral
exchanges during 1974-1976, and provides in Article XVII for amendments
to the list of exchanges for the period 1977-1979.
--US-USSR Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in
the Field of Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
The agreement takes note of the need to satisfy rapidly growing
energy demands in the US and USSR as well as in other countries of
the world and recognizes that the development of certain nuclear
technologies such as controlled thermonuclear fusion and fast breeder
reactors may offer solutions to the energy problem. The agreement
provides for the establishment of a US-USSR Joint Coordinating
Cbmmittee on Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy to
oversee initial cooperative efforts in the fields of controlled thermo-
nuclear fusion, with the aim of developing prototype and demonstration-
scale thermonuclear reactors; fast breeder reactors; and research in
high, medium and low energy physics on the fundamental properties of
matter.
--US-USSR Convention on Matters of Taxation
As the result of negotiations carried out under the aegis of the
US-USSR Commercial Commission, a tax treaty has been negotiated
providing detailed provisions for US-USSR tax relations, aimed at
avoiding double taxation and promoting expanding US-USSR relations
in economic and other fields.
--Augmented US-USSR Agreement on Civil Air Transport
Negotiations have been undertaken on the possible augmentation of
the US-USSR Civil Air Transport Agreement. The issues being considered
include possible bilateral increases in the number of Aeroflot and Pan-Am
flights between New York and Moscow each week; possible expansion of
services to Leningrad and Washington; improved charter arrangements;
use of different sized aircraft on different legs of the flight; and agreement
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by the USSR on use of wide-bodied aircraft such as the 747 on the
NY-Moscow run. It is not certain that an augmented agreement
will be concluded in time for the meetings with General Secretary
Brezhnev.
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BASId PRINCIPLES OF NEGOTIATIONS ON THE FURTHER
LIMITATION OF STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE ARMS
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU,
L.I. Brezhnev, and the President of the United States, Richard Nixon,
Having thoroughly considered the question of the further limitation
of strategic arms, and the progress already achieved in the current
negotiations,
Reaffirming their conviction that the earliest adoption of further
limitations of strategic arm's would be a major contribution. in reducing
the danger of an outbreak of nuclear war and in strengthening inter-
national peace and security,
Have agreed as follows:
First. The two Sides will continue active negotiations to work out
a permanent agreement on more complete measures on the limitation
of strategic offensive arms, as well as their subsequent reduction,
proceeding from the Basic Principles of relations between the USSR
and the United States signed in Moscow on May 29, 1972, and from the
Interim Agreement between the USSR and the United States of May 26,
1972 on Certain Measures with Respect to the Limitation of Strategic
Offensive Arms.
? Over the course of the next year the two Sides will make serious
efforts to complete the provisions of the permanent agreement on more
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complete measures on the limitation of strategic offensive arms with
the objective of signing it in 1974.
Second. New agreements on the limitation of strategic offensive
armarrients will be based on the principles of the Soviet-American
documents adopted in Moscow in May, 1972 and the agreements reached
in Washington in June 1973; and in particular, both Sides will be
guided by the recognition of each others equal security interests and
by the recognition. that efforts to obtain unilateral advantage, directly
or indirectly, -would be inconsistent with the strengthening of peaceful
relations between the USSR and the United States.
Third! The limitatinnn plar.ed nn .1.-.7r? ate ai offensive ? wcposn
apply both to their quantitative aspects as well as to their qualitative
improvement.
Fourth. Limitations on strategic offensive arms must be subject
to adequate verification by national technical means.
Fifth. The modernization and replacement of strategic offensive
arms would be permitted under conditions which will be established in
the agreements to be concluded.
Sixth. Pending the completion of a permanent agreement on more
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.completcmoasures of strategic offensive arms limitation, both Sides
are prepared to reach agreements on separate measures to supplement
the existing Interim Agreement of May 26, 1972.
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Seventh. Each Side will continue to tale necessary organizational
and technical measures for preventing accidental or unauthorized use
of nuclear weapons under its control in accordance with the agree-
ment of September 30, 1971 between the USSR and the United States.
Washington, D. C., " " June, 1973
FOR THE UNION OF SOVIET - FOR THE UNITED STATES
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF AMERICA
General Secretary of the President of the United
Central Committee of the CPSU States of America
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The negotiations that have produced this agreement have
lasted for more than a year during which we have had many
frank exchanges on the complex and delicate issues involved.
Both of us will of course be expected to assess and interpret
the meaning and significance of our agreement.
To avoid any possible misunderstanding, let me therefore tell
you briefly the view that I shall express. It would be my hope
that we could both express ourselves in similar terms since
any significant differences would detract from what we have
been able to accomplish.
My view is that we have set forth an objective and certain
modes of conduct applicable to the policies of each of our
..,,.countries in the years ahead. In doing this, we have not
agreed to ban the use of any particular weapons but have taken
a major step toward the creation of conditions in which the
danger of war, and especially of nuclear war, between our two
countries or between one of our countries and others, will
be removed. In short, the obligations we have accepted toward
each other we have also accepted as applicable to the policies
which each of us conducts toward other countries, In subscribing
to the agreement and, in particular, in agreeing to consult
with each other in certain circumstances, we have made
commitments to each other but have in no sense agreed to
impose any particular obligation or solution upon other countries.
At the same time, we have left the rights of each of our two
? countries, and obligations undertaken by each of them, unimpaired.
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ON
THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR
The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
herein after referred to as the Parties,
Guided by the objectives of strengthening world peace and
international security,
Conscious that nuclear war would have devastating consequences
for mankind,
Proceeding from the desire to bring about conditions in which the '
danger of an outbreak of nuclear war ?anywhere in the world would be
reduced and ultimately eliminated,
Proceeding from their obligations under the Charter of the United
Nations regarding the maintenance of peace, refraining from the threat
or use of iorce,. and the avoidance of war, and in conformity with the
agreements to which either Party has subscribed,
Proceeding from the Basic Principles of relations between the
United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
signed in Moscow on 29 May 1972,
Reaffirming that the development of relations between the USA and
the USSR is not directed against other countries and their interests,
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Have agreed-as follows:
ARTICLE I
The United States and the Soviet Union agree that an objective
of their policies is to remove the danger of nuclear war and of the
use of nuclear weapons.
Accordingly, the Parties agree that they will act in such a
manner as to prevent the development of situations capable of
causing a dangerous exacer:oation of their relations, as to avoid
military confrontations, and as to exclude the outbreak of nuclear
war between them and between either of the Parties and other
countrico.
-ARTICLE It
The Para-es agree, in accordance with Article I and to realize
the objective stated in that Article, to proceed from the premise that
each Party will refrain from the threat or use of force against the
other Party, against the allies of the other Party and against other
countries, in circumstances which may endanger international peace
and security. The Parties agree that they will be guided by these
considerations in the formulation of their foreign policies and in their
actions in the field of international relations.
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The Parties undertake to develop their relations with each
other and with other countries in a way consistent with the purposes
of this Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
If at any time relations between the Parties or between either
Party and other countries appear to involve the risk of a nuclear
conflict, or if relations between countries not parties to this
Agreement appear to involve the risk of nuclear war between the
USA and the USSR or between either Party and other countries,
the United States and the Soviet Union, acting in ?.e,c.nrel?pr?e with
the provisions of this?Agreement, shall immediately enter into
urgent consultations with each other and make every effort to avert
this risk.
ARTICLE V
Each Party shall be free to inform the Security Council of
the United Nations, the Secretary General of the United Nations and
the Governments of allied or other countries of the progress and
outcome of consultations initiated in accordance with Artivle IV of
-this Agreement.
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Nothing in this Agreement shall affect or impair:
(a) the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense
as envisaged by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations,
(b) the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, including
those relating to the maintenance or restoration of international peace
and security, and
(c) the obligations undertaken by either Party towards its
allies or third countries in treaties, agreements, and other appropriate
documents.
ARTICLE VII
This Agreement shall be of unlimited duration.
ARTICLE VIII
This Agreement shall enter into force upon signature.
Done at the City of Washington, D. C. on June , 1973,
in two copies, each in the English and in the Russian languages, both
texts being equally authentic.
For the United States of America: For the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics:
President of the United States General Secretary of the Central
of America Committee of the CPSU
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In its message of May 27, 1973, the Chinese side made
clear its view of the Soviet-U.S. agreement on the prevention
of nuclear war. It still maintains this view. The Chinese
side disagrees to U.S. signing of the agreement out of its
own consistent position, fearing that the United States would
create a great posture of peace for the Soviet Union and
arouse a false sense of security in the world, which would
lead Europe to feebleness and demoralization instead of
strength. The European countries would then either become
Finland or lean on the United States, and there would be
still less security and balance to speak of. China fears
neither isolation nor hegemony by nuclear powers. The
Chinese people have long been prepared to accept such a
challenge. It is Dr. Kissinger's firm belief that this
movement will serve to gain time and that the Soviet Union
can be enmeshed by peace and commitments. But we believe
that this precisely meets Soviet needs, making it easier
for the Soviet Union to mask its expansionism, attack
soft spots and take them one by one. The joint declaration
proposed by Dr. Kissinger on May 29 does not go beyond the
scopes of the Shanghai Communique in principle, but on the
contrary would, in effect, provide the Soviet Union with
a pretext to peddle its bi-lateral agreements and Asian
seourity system. It is therefore inappropriate to adopt
this course.
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MEMORANDUM OF CONVE TION
PARTICIPANTS; Ambassador Huang Chen, Chief ot the C Liaison
Han Hsu, Officer in the PRC Liaison Office
Chi Chao-ohti, Officer in the PRC (interpreter)
Dr. Henxy A. Kissinger, Assistantto the President
National Security Affairs
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Deputy Assistant to the P
ident for National Security Council Ope ratio
Pet ex W. Rodman, NSC Staff
DATE AND TIME: Thursday, June 14, 1973
6;35 - 7;40 p.m.
Dr. Kissinge Office
The White House
PLACE:
Kis n,ger: I told your ForeignMiniaer Iknew you speak English.
Huan Chen also beard about your talk.
Kissinger : Yon communications are good.
You had raao the Red Roon.
your old residence
s ec.ret.
continue negotiating! We immediately yielded on
to see you about a few things? First, about our meetings in Pam
I told yourForeign Minister we had concluded an understanding about Law
and Cambodia. [Hands over Tab A.) These will not be published. Their
codstence will in fact be denied.
Huang Chen; Thank you.
Kissinger: I have e understood,since your alliesdo keep signed
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We hope that both of you will keep the Paris Agreement.
posing,' We can't reiterate enough that the key element in Indochina is
now Cambodia, and everything else will be easy once that is settled. But
we have given your our ideas and we had an opportunity to discuss it brief]
with your Foreign Minister. "We understood further action has to wait unti
Prince Sihanouk returns to Peking.
hen: He yesterday
till in Yugoslavia.
: Yes, we understand it will .;take about 10 days.
Huang Chen: He will visit Romania after Yugoslavia.
Missilager: He has already been in Albania.
Huang Chen: You follow his movements
is singer: On one trip we were looking after him for you! Our intelliger
services thought I had lost my mind. You remember, when your Prime
Minister asked me to see what we could .do. Last year.
Also, o the previous conversations we ha*,e had. The President is of cou
extremely pleased with your invitation and accepts in principle, and we wi
discuss it in the next months what an appropriate day will be. Of course
everything would be simpler if there were a return visit here first. If for
any reason Washington is difficult, we could arraxge it at the Western Wh:
House in California.
Huanta Chen: You discussed his Metter with Minister CM Peng-fei,
Kissinger: Not the Western White House; that is a new idea. I invited y2
to the Western White House. Because we will go out at the end of next weo
before the conclusion of the Brezhnev visit. And we will stay there two
weeks, and maybe three. So if you sad any members of your Liaison Offil
wanted to come out for an evaluation of the visit, you would be very welco)
Or any other discussions we might want to have. I will even offer you a
Chinese meal if you come.
Huang Chen: That is right, you mentioned that last time. Yes, I know yc
mentioned that t ailinister Chi Peng-fel in Paris and he said that a reply
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gag: I am astonished at your communications. I couldn't get this
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om this offices? to my outer office in Z4 hours
? Huan hen; I am. sure it is quicker.
ger; I also want to give you a inea sage to show how we propose to
die the Korean question. [He hands over Tab BI
Huang Chen; I was just about to P,sit you about this. [Clii translatesthe ri
Thank you, and I will convey this to my Government,
Kissin I wanted o go over with you various item.s we are planningo
discuss at the Summit with B r ezhne v.
First of all, we want o reaffirm again that l the principles--first of all
the Shanghai communique, and the strategy we discussed with the Prime
Minister in Pe bruary--remain in full force as far as we are concerned.
And we have to implement this strategy in our own way. And the basic s r
is to maneuver the Soviet Union into a position of the aggressor if it uses
military force- -without encouraging it to be the aggressor. Which is a
difficult exercis e.
We will sign a number bilateral agreementswhich I have summarized
r you here. (Hands over Summary of Bilateral Agreements, Tab C.]
Huang Chen; Some of them have been discussed in your press already.
Kissinger, [laughing] Exactly,Our press is not very disciplined. Ther4
is no great novelty in any of the
lluang: That is right.
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Then we will announce some principles for the Strategic Arms
Talks. We will not have A specific agreement.
There will be no agreement on the SALT.
ssinger;_ There will be no agreement on the SALT. There will be an a
merit on the principles of SALT, But no concrete agreement. I give you t)
exact text of what we will agree upon.
Huang: It. i
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things. One is SALT and the other o
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Kis ainger I will talk about the other one in a moment. On SALT, all we
are saying ts we will try to reach an agreement next year. The rest of it
is generalities without precise significance. If you have any question abou
any of these principles, please ask us, stt if they have any operational
significance except the one that says we will try to reach an agreement in
1974, it will be accidental, and unintentional. [Huang laughs. Kissinger
hands over SALT Principles, Tab D.]
Huang: Please go on.
Kissinger: Let me talk about the other document, e have decided to p:
ceed even though we take your views extremely seriously. It is important
for you to understand our positi.on. If we want to establish hegemony with
the Soviet Union, we don't need an agreement. We have many offers with-
out an agreement. If we want to put you in an isolated position, we can
make many concrete steps with the Soviet Union.
The only thing we have changed in what you have seen--and we will give yc
correct text--is where we say The United States and the Soviet Union agr
it is the objective of their policy, " we now say !'of their policies", to mai(
it is two separate policies. We have also taken out the word "solemnly."
In ?rder to avoid any misunderstanding on the consultation clause, the Pre
dent has written a letter to Brezhnev, of which I am giving you three para.
graphs. 'To Chin Would you read this to the Ambassador? We have not
marked it, but it is a letter from the President to I3rezhnev. [He hands 0,
Tab E, Chi translates. Dr. Kissinger also hands over a copy of the final
ext, Tab F.]
nt to repeat again: We will not change our yote in the United Natiqns
on any of the proposals on nuclear war that you have objected to.
Huang: That is,ahstain.
Kissinger; We will do the same as we did last year, that is, abstain. W,
not join in any other resolutions of a similar nature. And we will be glai
as I have pointed to you before, to formalize our refusal to participate in
any consultation that affects Chinese interests in any manner you dee
appropriate.
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which in effect summarizes the other events and has no new eletneuts.
have no text yet, but we hope to have it early next week. But it will have
new elements in it. It is not of the same significance as the Shanghai
Communique, It states no new issues of principles; it in effect states all
the things I have given you here orally.
With your permission, I would like to see you at least once during the Bre
nev visit, to bring you up to date on any concrete discussions that occur
beyond what I have told you. If you &re willing.
sta.
? We will thirik it over.
ger: We hope that if we do things with which you disagree, that yot
your opposition in such a way that we can respond in a positive rnani
Huang: [Nods yes.] In order to save time--we have a message in reply tc
the point you just mentioned--but we will just give it to you. [Chi hands ov
PRC note on nuclear agreement, Tab G.]
TCissiner; [reads itj Well, we understand. We disagree, but we unders
your position. It is a different evaluation of the ,situation Because we
certainly do not want European countries to become Finlands. It is total'
against our policy, We also don't want them, to become totally dependent (
the United States--because this is also against our long-term interests,
it is absoultely against our policy to isolate China.
As we look around the world, we don't see whet "soft spottt the So'viet Unic
can attack at which we would not resist. Because it is our intention to re$
Our strategy is e sentialiy that which I described to President Po pid u.c
which I gave you a copy.
Huang: I read that.
K e . It can be that sometimes
a different evaluation of ta(
I am not certain intellectually why the Soviet Union can peddle its Asian
security system on the basis of what we have discussed here. Really.
intellectually it would help me to know; perhaps we can discuss it some
time when I am in Peking.
Huang: We hope our discussion will be fleshed oui; in your discussions
Peking. Because it is obvious our evaluations are different.
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Hue, ,g; Yes, we do consider he progress made since the Shanghai Comm
Pique, 15 16 months ago, quite encouraging. And the establishment of
Liaison Offices in the captials after your reb uary visit was important
progress.
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nue o this course and accelerate i
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e ? You can count on it. Are you making some pgre
Hn ; We are making some progress in finding a residence! When
settle own we will invite you.
Kissinger I am counting on it You have a resideitce?
a g: Yes. The real difficulty is to find a large building for our chance
lam just thinking out loud, but it maybe possible to consider the long-ranf
possibility of the two countries to exchange large tracts of land on which tc
our quarters.
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quarters.
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is siner;
In principle we are prepare4. Of coursewe already have our
agree in principle IS it possible?
; We did it with the Soviets. It is possible.
it is possible, we will arrange
wish you to tell Peking the following; Maybe this proposition is not the rx
suitable one, the one I made on May 29. On the consultations. The one to
which, - you gave me this reply. But we can tell you in advance, since
h ave people who are mueh more imaginative than we, that if you make a pr
posal that symbolizes the objectives to which we have committed ourselVet
we are almost certain to accept it, [They laugh] A proposal designed to
symbolize the concern we feel, which was expressed in the President's let
ters.
You do&t ave to answer it now. It can wait until August r any other tx
13iit I want your leaders to understand this would not be a subject of bargat
[They talk among tberns.elve
Huang; I will report this to our ,d over
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r; Of course. I d it think yoz would make an immediate dect
Huang; August is coming around quite quickly
Zcissinger Yes. Will you be coming back there for my visit?
ang: I don t know yet!
Kissinger; If you want , give you. a ride in my plane.
We balle the Shabof Iran and
}ug: You told me, in July.
Ki singer: July the 17th and July the 24th.
And Prime Minister Tanaka a
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er: Ye e Minister Tanaka is
visions of photographers and newsmen.
July 31st- tog the r w
Huang: You are a very busy man, we can see We heard from your
before that although you travel so much, because of your good health
special plane with sleeping arrangements, you can do it.
t:
Kissinger: I will probably collapse all at once. This is all I have. Have
committe4 all your reserves? [LAughterj
Huang; I have. As a general,.I am not very accustomedto using reser
[The meeting then en ed. ]
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