Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Nava) Aide) 192 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By DEB NLT, Date 9-4-85 April 16, 1951 TOP T SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS FOUR-POWER - Ambassador Jessup reports that during EXPLORATORY TALKS an informal quadripartite conversation on Saturday he gained the impression that the Soviet position on an agenda for a Four-Power Foreign Ministers meeting is one of absolute rigidity on the order of the armaments item, probable insistence on the primary position of the German demilitariza- - tion item, possible elimination of the item on the North Atlantic Treaty, and a possible deal on Trieste. Jessup informed Gromyko that the US, UK and France saw no possibility of obtaining an agreed agenda if it in- cluded the Soviet-proposed item on the North Atlantic Treaty, but that they could consider the formulation of an item which would contain a reference to the Balkan treaties and the Italian treaty with reference to Trieste. Gromyko accepted the statement on the NAT item with a pre- functory reference to the great importance of this question, but showed interest in the Trieste question, asking if the western powers could consider specific reference to Trieste, to which Jessup replied by repeating his previous statement as to possible consideration of mentioning it in combination with the Balkan treaties. In a discussion as to whether the sub-items on item one were exclusive or illustrative, Gromyko argued that he supposed we had mentioned the important ques. - tions the Ministers would bring up, which Jessup took as an indication that the Soviets may try to insist that these sub-items are exclusive, In a subsequent tripartite conversation, French Deputy Parodi stated his steadily hardening conviction that we cannot yield on the question of mentioning the reduction of armaments first, but that he did not mind a concession on the position of the German demilitarization item or on limiting the reduction of armaments to those of the Four Powers. PACIFIC PACT A British Cabinet Minister has informed Embassy London that some Cabinet members were very concerned over the political advantage that the opposition could obtain from a Pacific security arrangement which TOPSECRET