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RECOMMENDED TALKING POINTS
1. U.S. -Spanish Relations
After welcoming the Minister who has announced he is coming with a
personal message from General Franco, you should:
-- Express your pleasure that overall relations with Spain continue
close and friendly.
- - Recall your direct personal relationship with and your admiration
for General Franco, who has continued to provide Spain with strong
leadership.
2. Spain and Western Defense
The letter from General Franco reportedly says that Spain wants to play
its proper role in Western defense. The objective of the letter may be
to open up the issue of our defense relationship with Spain now, well in
advance of the 1975 expiration of our 1970 Agreement of Friendship and
Cooperation.
On Spain's defense role, you may wish to:
-- State our emphatic agreement that Spain's contribution to Western
defense should receive proper recognition in Western Europe as it has here
in the United States for years.
-- Note that our constant policy objective has been to bring Spain and
NATO closer together.
-- Recall that Secretaries Rogers and Laird reiterated this objective
to our NATO allies during the most recent NATO Ministerial meeting.
3. Our Agreement with Spain
Minister Lopez Bravo may urge that we start talks soon to extend the 1970
Agreement so as to avoid last-minute negotiating problems. If he does,
you can:
Assure him that we stand ready to start preliminary talks this fall
in Madrid if the Spanish wish.
SECRET
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