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Amb. Dobrynin/Mr. Kissinger
11:32 a. m., June 24, 1972
K:
Hello.
D:
Hello, Henry. Are you over with your press conference?
K:
I'm finished.
D:
You're very quick now.
K:
Oh, yeah. Well, I just said that relations with the Soviet Union are in
bad shape; there's going to be a tremendous headline tomorrow.
D:
I was worried about that. I think you had just enough to say one phrase
and that's finished. Well, this I would like to just mention to you before.
K:
Just for your information, I have publicly stated that this stuff about
rocketry experts was total nonsense.
D:
I think it really is because you know different kinds of people look
differently on all the stories in the press, as you understand. So I
think a public statement from your level is useful.
Specifically, I received instructions to speak with you when you were
back and specifically only to you. And I read to you right from the
telegram really just to make sure. At the summit talks in Moscow,
President Nixon made a request for the grain purchases from the
United States be considered by the Soviet Union. In making that request,
he noted that a positive decision on this question by the Soviet trade
would create a favorable atomsphere, so to speak, in the Congress
and in the country in general for granting the Soviet Union most
favored nation treatment in commerce and credit.
K:
That is correct.
D:
After President Nixon's departure, the Soviet leaders carefully
considered the question once again taking into account the considerations
expressed by the President in Moscow to the effect that that action
from the Soviet Government would help the President decide more
quickly the question of normalization of Soviet/American commercial
and economic relations. The Soviet side deemed it possible to authorize
the Soviet Foreign Trade Ministry to enter concrete negotiations with
authorized representatives of the Unite d States Government, on the
question of grain purchases taking into account the exchange of views
which had already taken place between the sides on this question, in
Moscow and besides.
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