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SECRET
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
September 18, 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
@
SUBJECT:
My Forthcoming Meetings with Soviet
Foreign Minister Gromyko
As you know, I will be meeting with Gromyko in New York
September 23 and 28, during his visit for the fall session of
the U.N. General Assembly.
Objectives and Basic Approach
I see those talks as a potential contribution to your
objective of putting the US-Soviet relationship on a sounder
footing by linking improved bilateral relations with increased
Soviet restraint. I will put this right up front in an initial
one-on-one session before the Delegations convene: I would
like in that session to convey on your behalf that we want to
work within a long-term perspective based on respect for each
other's vital interests, but that this will frankly require new
Soviet realism, together with a recognition that the world
power balance cannot be changed by violence and force without
calling forth a response in kind.
Gromyko will of course resist, and any results will be
neither large nor immediate, but we may be able to start a
process headed in the right direction. My main purpose will be
to drive home to him that our whole approach to East-West
policy has fundamentally and durably changed: from now on, the
Soviet military build-up and lack of international restraint
will be met with an appropriate U.S. military and political
response. But I also want to convey to Gromyko that there is
something for the Soviets in a more moderate course.
Gromyko is an accurate reporter, and I will be making a
sober presentation intended to show the Politburo that we have
adopted our new course deliberately and will pursue it
deliberately; that there are positive benefits if they adjust
to it responsibly; and that the process of serious dialogue we
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