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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMr. Kissinger/Sec. Rogers\n11:54 m.\n2/28/73\nSR:\nI think we can talk on this line--the other one is--\nHK: Oh no, the other one is impossible.\nSR:\nI have a statement here that I 11 explain to you--I'll read it to you\nissomething you might release here or you might release there,\ndepending on what the President wants to do.\nHK: Right.\nSR: \"In a private meeting- - first let me say we had two meetings--one with all\nfour of us that lasted a couple of hours and that was just the usual stuff,\nand afterwards Trinh and I went into another room--just the two of us\nand he assured me that they would carry out the release of all our POW's\nwithin our 60 day period --there was no doubt about that, secondly, that\nthey had no interest in causing unnecessary trouble and first they\npromise that the government's position is the same on the POW's release\n--secondly, that he would\nXXXXXXXXX on four separate occasions--and that\nas far as the next stage of the release is concerned he would have the\nmatter taken up at once in the JMC in order to work out the arrangements.\nI think that's what they have in mind--I think they are doing it for two reason\none because the PRG and two because concern that was expressed to me\nabout mine sweeping-- think in any event they will move in the next day or\ntwo and I think the only reason they didn't do it this morning was because\nhe felt it would have been under pressure--can - you hear me all right?\nHK:\nYeh.\nSR:\nYeh. I have a statement here as I say--is a possibility, we are under\na lot of pressure to say something because everyone else has said something\n\"-in a private meeting between Secretary of State Rogers and Foreign\nMinister Trinh which followed the meeting--well, \"In a private meeting\nwith Secretary State Rogers and Foreign Minister Trinh, the Foreign\nMinister stated that his government intended to fully carry out the\nprovisions of the Paris Agreement dealing with POW's. In this connection\nhe gave the assurance that his government and all POW's held by his\ngovernment would be released within the60-day period set forth in the\nagreement. With regard to the next phase of release of the POW's\nForeign Minister Trinh said that the matter would be discussed at once\nand the JCM in order to work out the arrangements.\" Now the last\nsentence is something that the President should decide on - 11 In the light"
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