Proposed telegraph from President Ronald Reagan to President Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania regarding safety concerns of Romanian athletes at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics

PROPOSED TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE Dear Mr. President: I have found our correspondence over the past few years useful and would like to discuss several matters of interest to both of our countries, including Romania's participation in the summer Olympic games. The state of U.S.-Romanian relations is good. The 1983 visits of Vice President Bush and Secretary of Commerce Baldrige to Romania, as well as the visits of Foreign Minister Andrei and Minister Necula to the United States this year, are recent examples of the frequent and constructive exchanges we enjoy. Our bilateral trade relations have also expanded significantly this year, and we expect that expansion to continue. In this connection, I wish to inform you that shortly I will submit to Congress my determination of the extension of Romania's Most- Favored-Nation tariff status for another year. Moreover, this summer we will again be extending for three years the bilateral commercial agreement which has served the interests of both our countries. Our governments have consulted regularly on important multilateral issues such as various problems at the United Nations, the CDE conference in Stockholm, INF, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. We have also kept your able representative in Washington, Ambassador Malitza, informed on our continuing efforts to improve relations with the new leadership of the