https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/1da4f9694116f360201050363bb5323e.pdf ed8f2d487e4e3c39dab89e1dfbfe6c3c PDF Text Text DopmejQt^Usclosfed under the Access to Infqrmatioa Actt Hnfprmafion U- X' </ A/ FM DISARMDELGVA JUL 1 2 / 6 6 RESTR TO EXTERNL 2 7 4 PRIORITY INFO WASHDC LDN NATOPARIS EMBPARIS. TT CANFORCEHED(DLRP)DE OTT BAG MCOW DE LDN STKHM DE PARIS RQWE. 27- ti--7 •/- 3 f 1 f> ENDC:272TH PLENARY MTG-JUL 12 REPS OF CDA(TEXT BY AIR),CZECH AND BULGARIA SPOKE ON GCD AND PARTIAL MEASURES TO DEAL WITH NUCLEAR THREAT.ITALIAN SOVIET POLISH AND USA REPS COMMENTED ON ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKING GROUP(WG)TO DISCUSS REDUCTION OF NWVS.EXCHANGE OCCURRED ON VIETNAM BETWEEN USSR AND USA. ITALY ALSO DISCUSSED NONPROLIFERATION.ENDC AGREED TO COCHAIRMENS RECOMMENDATION ON AGENDA AS FOLLOWStNEXT FOUR MTGS ON NONPROLIFERATION;FOUR MTGS THEREAFTER ON OTHER COLLATERAL MEASURES;TWO MTGS THEREAFTER ON GCD. 2 . 1 SAID GCD REMAINED BASIC GOAL OF WORK OF ENDC.UAR STATEMENT ON THIS SUBJECT AT LAST MTG WAS INTERESTING AND THOUGHTFUL.CLEAR RESULT OF SITUATION UAR REP DESCRIBED WAS THAT FEW NOW BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE TO DISPOSE OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND NWVS AS FIRST STEP TOWARDS GCD. IT WAS ALSO REASON WHY CDA DID NOT RPT NOT FAVOUR PROPOSAL FOR CONFERENCE TO SIGN CONVENTION BANNING USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.ONLY RESPONSIBLE WAY TO DEAL WITH NUCLEAR THREAT WAS BY BALANCED MEASURES OF ARMS CONTROL WHICH COULD BE VERIFIED—NOT RPT NOT MERE VERBAL UNDERTAKINGS.CDA WOULD WELCOME ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKING GROUP WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS WHICH COULD CONSIDER INTER ALIA UAR SUGGESTIONS 3.TURNING TO PARTIAL MEASURES I AGREED WITH MEXICAN COMMENT THAT "1 000057 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information *f i • PAGE TWO 274 RESTR PARTIAL UNDERGROUND TEST BAN SHOULD NOT RPT NOT NECESSARILY BE LINKED WITH MORATORIUM.CDA SUPPORTED GOAL OF COOPERATION IN SEISMIC MATTERS AND WAS PREPARED TO PURSUE EFFORTS WITH OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES IN LINE WITH VALUABLE INITIATIVES TAKEN BY SWEDEN RECOGNIZING THAT RECHNICAL CAPABILITIES HAD IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN IDENTIFYING UNDERGROUND SEISMIC EVENTS.WE WERE GLAD TO NOTE BOTH USA AND USSR HAD EXPRESSED POSITIVE INTEREST IN THIS SORT OF INTERNATL COOPERATION.USSR HAD SUGGESTED FACT USA HAD NUCLEAR TESTING PROGRAM PLANNED FOR FUTURE IMPLIED THEY WOULD NOT RPT NOT AGREE TO TEST BAN TILL PROGRAM COMPLETED;BUT MERE EXISTENCE OF PLANS DID NOT RPT NOT MEAN THEY HAD TO BE CARRIED OUT.ENDC WAS TRYING TO FIND CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH SUCH TESTS COULD BE STOPPED BY AGREEMENT.AFTER NOTING INTERESTING NONALIGNED SUGGESTIONS RE CTB,I COMMENTED ON SWEDISH VERIFICATION BY CHALLENGE PROPOSAL ALONG LINES SUGGESTED YOURTEL N163 JUN2.SWEDISH REP HAD CLARIFIED NUMBER OF PREVIOUSLY HAZY CONCEPTS AND SORTED THEM INTO COHERENT PATTERN WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE USEFUL BASIS FOR DISCUSSION.CTB WOULD HAVE TO CONTAIN STEP BY STEP APPROACH WHERE UNCLEAR EVENTS REQUIRED CLARIFICATION.UNDERGROUND TEST BAN TREATY SHOULD BE SEPARATE DOCU FROM 1963 PARTIAL BAN.THOUGH THERE MIGHT BE SOME PROBLEMS TO BE OVERCOME IN SWEDISH APPROACH,WE FELT IT COULD ULTIMATELY FORM INITIAL STEPS OF VERIFICATION SYSTEM.IN THIS CONNECTION I NOTED SWEDISH EXPLANATION THAT VERIFICATION BY CHALLENGE WAS NOT RPT NOT PRESENTED AS ALTERNATIVE FOR ON-SITE INSPECTION. �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information *f PAGE THREE 274 RESTR ON THIS BASIS CONCEPT COULD BE DISCUSSED,DEVELOPED,MODIFIED IF REQUIRED AND WORKED INTO FRAMEWORK OF EVENTUAL UNDERGROUND TEST BAN. 4.1 THEN COMMENTED ON PRESENT RISK THAT ROUGH POWER BALANCE MIGHT BE UPSET THROUGH RACE TO DEVELOP MORE ELABORATE WEAPON SYSTEMS PARTICULARLY ABMS AND QUOTED APPROPRIATE SECTION OF PMS JUN25 SPEECH IN SCARBOROUGH.USA SEC MCNAMARA IN MAY18 MONTREAL SPEECH HAD ALSO RECOGNIZED FACT NATION COULD REACH POINT AT WHICH IT DID NOT RPT NOT BUY MORE SECURITY SIMPLY BY BUYING MORE HARDWARE.ONE WAY TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM WAS THROUGH USA PROPOSAL FOR FREEZE ON NUMBERS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF NWVS COUPLED WITH POSSIBLE REDUCTION OF SUCH VEHICLES.WE ONLY REQUIRED INDICATION FROM USSR IT WAS PREPARED TO WORK OUT MEANS OF DEALING WITH DANGEROUS SITUATION. 5.REPS OF CZECH AND BULGARIA DISCUSSED GCD IN FAMILIAR TERMS, REFERRING TO SWEDISH PROPOSAL TO INITIATE DISCUSSION ON STAGE III OF GCD AND TO QUOTE INTERESTING THOUGHTS UNQUOTE SUBMITTED BY UAR. AFTER COMMENTING ON PROHIBITION OF USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF NUCLEAR FREE ZONES IN STANDARD FASHION,CZECH TURNED TO NUCLEAR TESTING.INTER ALIA HE SUGGESTED IT WOULD BE IN INTEREST OF ALL STATES WHEN CTB SIGNED NOT RPT NOT TO DO ANYTHING WHICH COULD LEAD TO DENUNCIATION OF TREATY BY ANOTHER STATE.RISK OF BEING CAUGHT CHEATING WAS TOO GREAT FOR STATE TO UNDERTAKE THAT RISK.EVEN IF ONE UNDERGROUND TEST WENT UNDETECTED IT WOULD HAVE NO RPT NO MILITARY VALUE;ONLY SERIES OF TESTS WOULD HAVE SUCH VALUE AND SERIES WOULD NOT RPT NOT GO UNDETECTED.FINALLY CZECH REFERRED 000059 ...4 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information *f PAGE FOUR 274 RESTR TO RECENT BUCHAREST DECLARATION BY WSAW PACT ON HOLDING PAN EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PEACE AND SECURITY IN EUROPE. 6.CAVALLETTI FIRST REITERATED WESTERN SUPPORT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF WG ON NWVS;SOLE OBSTACLE WAS SOVIET INSISTANCE WG SHOULD DISCUSS ONLY ITS PROPOSALS.LATER ROSHCHIN SUPPORTED BY POLISH REP SAID SEVERAL YEARS AGO WORKING GROUP UNDER COCHAIRMEN HAD CONSIDERED GCD TREATY WITH NIL RESULTS.WHEN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO SIDES WAS SO GREAT POLITICAL DECISION WAS REQUIRED BEFORE ESTABLISHMENT OF WG.IN ADDITION ROSHCHIN SAID WORLD CIRCUMSTANCES TODAY WERE NOT RPT NOT PROPITIOUS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF WG,MENTIONING INCREASE IN MILITARY BUDGET OF USA BY 15 BILLION DOLLARS AND VIETNAM SITUATION. ESTABLISHMENT OF WG IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD ONLY MISLEAD PUBLIC OPINION.USA REP(BU(NN,REPLACING FOSTER WHO HAS RETURNED TO WASHDC) RECALLED WG IN 1964 HAD BEEN PROPOSED BY USSR ON CONDITION ONLY ITS PROPOSALS WERE CONSIDERED.WEST WOULD HAVE AGREED THEN AND WOULD AGREE TODAY TO WG IF IT COULD DISCUSS PROPOSALS OF BOTH SIDES. ON VIETNAM HE SAID USSR HAD NOT RPT NOT FULFILLED ITS RESPONSIBILITIES,HAVING FAILED TO AGREE TO CONVENE GNEVA CONFERENCE AS SUGGESTED RECENTLY BY INDIA.ROSHCHIN REPLIED ENDC WAS NOT RPT NOT CALLED ON TO DISCUSS VIETNAM;USA CRITICISM OF USSR WAS MERELY ATTEMPT TO COVER UP USA AGGRESSION.USA COULD STOP WAR AT ANY TIME. 7.DURING HIS INTERVENTION ITALIAN REP ALSO DEALT WITH NONPROLIFERATION.HE SUGGESTED DETAILED COMPARISON OF TWO TEXTS AS PROPOSED BY ITALY AND CDA MIGHT WELL LEAD TO AGREEMENT NOT RPT NOT JUST ON MINOR , . ,5 000060 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information PAGE FIVE 274 RESTR POINTS.TWO TEXTS WERE VERY CLOSE ON PROHIBITING FABRICATION BY NON NUCLEAR STATE AND PROVISION OF INFO FOR FABRICATION BY NUCLEAR STATE TO NONNUCLEAR STATE.RECENT EXCHANGES HAD DEMONSTRATED EAST RECOGNIZED STABILISING ROLE AT PRESENT OF ALLIANCES;BUT IT WAS NOT RPT NOT CLEAR WHAT SORT OF CONSULTATION WITHIN ALLIANCES THEY COULD ACCEPT.HE SUGGESTED USSR MIGHT HAVE NO RPT NO OBJECTION TO CONSULTATIONS ON USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.RE SOVIET SUGGESTIONS FOR TREATY ARTICLE ALONG LINES OF KOSYGIN PROPOSAL,ITALY FELT THIS SHOULD ONLY BE FOR THOSE STATES WHICH SOUGHT SUCH ASSURANCES.THERE WAS NEED FOR WIDER SYSTEM WHICH,WITHOUT AFFECTING STATUS OF NON ALIGNED,WOULD PROVIDE COLLECTIVE GUARANTEE BY ALL NUCLEAR STATES IN CASE OF NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL.IN CONSIDERING THIS POINT,JOHNSON PROPOSAL AND POSSIBLE ROLE FOR UN SHOULD NOT RPT NOT BE RULED OUT. 000061 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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