SMITH: UK APPEARS TO BE DEPARTING FROM UK-U.S. PROPOSALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-94-3-27-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: October 6, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/21 : LOC-HAK-94-3-27-5
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SMTTH. UK APPEARS T?. BE DEAARTING FROM UK ?U. S. PROPOSALS
L-0~61928 SALISBURY DOMESTIC 5ERVICE IN ENGLISH 15GJ0 GMT t5 OCT 7fi LDlCA
CIEXT) THE PRIME. MINISTER, MR IAN SMITHS HAS REPLIED TO A
STATEMENT BY THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY THAT THE FIVE POINTS OF
HIS AGREEMETRO~,WYHE pRIMESMINISTERRS ST ATEME~TEGOTIATTON. HERE
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MY ATTEN?ION HAS BEEN DRAWN 20 PRESS REPORTS DF REMARKS MADE BY
THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR ANTHONY GROSLAND, AT THE UNITED
NATIONS YESTERDAY... IN PARTICULAR, HIS REFERENCE TO THE SO-CALLED
FIVE POINTS BEING OPEN TO NEGgTIA?ION APPEARS TD INDICATE THAT
THE BRITISH GDVERSMWHICHRWEREPPUTITO MEOINTPRETORIA ON THE 19TH0-
AMERICAN PROPOSAL
DF SEPTEMBER BY'DR KISSINGER.
IN MY STATEMENT DF 24 SEPTEMBER I READ DUT THE FIVE POINTS
IN THE EXACT. WORDS WHICH THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ASKED ME TO USE.
I WAS INFORMED BY DR KISSINGER THAT THE PROPOSALS HAD BEEN DRAWN
UP 1N CONSULTATION WITH-THE~BRITISH GOVERNMEI~iT AND HAD BEEN AGREED
HY THE BLACK PRESIDENTS WHOM HE HAD CONSULTED. FDR THAT REASON,
THE PROPOSALS WERE PRESENTED AS A PACKAGE DEAL WHICH I WOULD HAVE
Td ACCEPT OR REJECT IDEMANDSNWOUL.DYBEARAISEDAS ASSURED .THAT IF
I ACCEPTED IT NO NEW
IT WILL BE RECALLED THAT I MADE MY ACCEPTANCE CONDITIONAL
NOT ONLY ON THE LIFTING DE OFNTHEOPROPQSALSCBYSTHEODTHERrPARTIESM~
BUT ALSO ON THE ACCEPTANC
CONCERNED.
MY STATEMENT WAS WELCOMED SYNDIC ATIO~IITHATNTHEYEDISAGRE ~ERNMENT5
A[~D AT N D TIME HAVE I HAD ARY I
WITH ANY PART QF IT. I HESFDRTHCOMINGTCONFERENCE WITHCTHEEpOSITIVE
AND X WILL HE GOING TO T
AIM DF GE?TINE THE INTERILSGWHICH~INACCEPTEDISHIT IS INRTHEOF
THE ANGO-AMERICAN PROPO A
INTERESTS OF ALL RHODESIOSSIBLEACKIAHOPEHITHEREFDREsHTHATHI'HED
BE ACHIEVED AS SOaN AS P
C?NFEREiVCE WILL NOT WASTE GI~EDQPROPOSALS~US MATTERS WHICH FALL
OV?SIDE THE SCOPE OF THE A R
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/21 : LOO-HAK-94-3-27-5