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Sec. Gen. Waldheim/Kissinger
3/22/74 - 10:03 am
W:
Hello.
K:
Mr. Secretary-General, how are you?
W:
Well, I'm fine. I was quite tired when I returned from Africa, but
I'm fine again. I'm sure you are very busy with your trip to Moscow
and I've only to wish you the best success
K:
Aren t you nice.
W:
I hope everything goes well. I congratulate you on your press con-
ference. I saw part of it and I read carefully what you said. I think
that this trip to Moscow will be very helpful because I do have the
feeling that our friends there are getting a little worried and I think
your trip couldn't be better timed.
K:
Well I think, too, it is at a good time.
W:
Mr. Secretary, I have a few points which I wanted to mention to you.
First of all, things are going quite well here; we have things under
control. The Security Council this year is easier to handle than last
year because of the new composition of the non-permanent members.
They are more.
they
are not as actually, I'11 put it this way, in
asking for a meeting for
we had informal consultation a few
days ago, as you know, on the request of Malek and the Russians, and
the three main items which were mentioned, the ceiling of 7,000 troops
per unit, Malek is worried that I could go beyond 7,000. I calmed him
down. I told him that this is not my intention, that 7,000 will be enough.
Of course, if we had a new situation in Syria, for instance, it could be
that we need more, but as far as I see it, if there will be no new situa-
tion we could even handle a possible Syrian bumperstorm (?) with the
troops over there. In other words, we could dispense without any
problems, two or three battalions which are now in the reserve in
the
tidal area to Syria in case the U.S. would succeed and that there
is
a
similar solution that we had on the Egyptian front.
K:
D.K.
W:
So he was very satisfied with this. Then there was the question of the
mandate for units in Egypt. He created the impression that each unit
that they didn't ask for the mandate to police the
I told
him that in my report to the Council last October, it is said that one
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