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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
The President
Ignatiy T. Novikov, Deputy Chairman of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR, and
Chairman of the State Committee for
Construction Affairs
Carla A. Hills, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
Amb. Anatoliy Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador
to the United States
Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Wednesday, June 18, 1975
10:25 a. m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
[The press was admitted for photographs]
President: We will have some pictures.
DECLASSIFIED
NSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES 3/9/04
state Review
Novikov: It is the normal procedure. We do the same.
President: I understan d you are active in the Olympic Program.
NARA DATE 5/18/04
Novikov: I am Chairman of the Olympic Committee. I didn't know I
would be given such responsibility. I am a bit sorry.
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5
President: It looks like you were an athlete.
?
Novikov: I played soccer, a little.
GERALD
[The press left]
CLASSIFIED BY Henry A. Kissing er
CONFIDENTIAL
BY
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (B) (1, 3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.
File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
CONFIDENTIAL
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Novikov: First, Mr. President, I want to convey to you what occurred
at my meeting with General Secretary Brezhnev before I left Moscow.
The General Secretary asked me to send his greetings. He fondly
recalled the meeting with you in Vladivostok. He noted. what progress
was expected in the field of limitation of nuclear armaments. He
asked me to convey to you his wishes that the question would be resolved
in a positive manner on your side, and he is looking forward to meeting
with you soon to resolve it.
The second thing he asked was, on 14 June he addressed a body of the
Russian Soviet Federated Republic. Knowing that both we and you devote
much time to enhancing and extending detente, he thought he should put it
also before his electorate. He wants you to know that he will continue his
efforts to strengthen detente. He noted that you have also spoken on the
strengthening of detente and that it is something the whole world seeks.
This is his main message. On other questions, he hoped that the
American proposals would be constructive and in the interests of the
whole world.
President: Thank you, Mr. Minister. Please convey to the General
Secretary my greetings and my fond recollections of Vladivostok.
Both of us approached the problems of Vladivostok in a constructive
way and I think the outcome can be not only in the interests of our two
countries but of the world as a whole. I can assure the General Secretary
that we will approach the problem of resolving the final issues in a
constructive way and we hope the technical issues remaining can be
resolved and we can take the final step in the not too distant future.
Please also tell General Secretary Brezhnev that I noted his comments
in the press when he spoke to the political organization on detente. It
coincided with my views on the strengthening of detente. It is important
to us both, and to reducing tension on a worldwide basis.
It seems to me that the agreement that you and Secretary Hills will
sign on the 19th is a further move to benefit detente. I am very interested
in the six subjects which will be agreed to, and I hope the progress here
will be useful in other areas.
Dobrynin: They will sign today. They are working too hard.
CONFIDENTIAL
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Novikov: First of all, I will convey with great pleasure your words to
General Secretary Brezhnev and I thank you for your words to us. I have
only one other thing on this matter. General Secretary Brezhnev is
working on materials which are important to CSCE and we are hoping that
you will be working on it, and he is looking forward to meeting with you
on that occasion.
President: [to Dobrynin] Did Henry talk to you about this?
Dobrynin: Yes.
President: My understanding is that if we can resolve this one issue
we can move forward to a meeting the week of 21 July and that would be
avvery worthwhile conclusion. I am looking forward to seeing General
Secretary Brezhnev at that time.
Novikov: A great deal of this depends on you, not only on us.
President: We are approaching it constructively, and I hope the
compromise being put forth will permit a Helsinki conference in a
month or so.
Novikov: I will convey your comments. One other item that General
Secretary Brezhnev asked me to convey is the internal situation. We are
fulfulling our plan at the level of 8.8 percent. It was 6.2 percent which
was in the plan. Therefore, we will meet the five year plan.
President: Secretary Hills is in charge of our construction. We are
beginning to see some progress and we will go down the road together.
Novikov: We are working with Secretary Hills for three days. Our work
will contribute to the success in this and all other fields. These six
items -- you know them well -- will become even more important in the
future. Our specialists will meet more often and the increased contact
will contribute to the relations between our countries.
President: We keep Carla busy but you should invite her to Moscow.
Novikov: Mr. President, let me give you this. [He hands the President
a book and invites the President to Moscow in 1980 for the Olympics].
President: In 1980 I will have more time. I hope I will still be here, and
since I will not be running I may be able to come.
[The meeting ended].
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