Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT(Maval Aid.)141 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 January 25, 1951 By. DEB NLT, Date 9-4-85 TOPSECREI SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS KOREA Ambassador Henderson reports from New Delhi that Bajpai, Secretary General of the Indian Minis- - try of External Affairs, has given him excerpts from a telegram re- ceived from Pannikar, Indian Ambassador in Peiping, including certain clarifications made by the Chinese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs regarding the Chinese conditions for a cease-fire. Pannikar reported that the following points seemed significant: 1) Peiping will undertake to assume responsibility for the return of Chinese volunteers when agreement regarding withdrawal of foreign troops has been reached and is being implemented; 2) Peiping agrees to a cease-fire with an immediate action limit to be fixed at the opening session of a conference; 3) Although until now the Chinese Communists have been insisting that the Korean problem should be left to the Koreans to decide, the Commu- nists now agree that the conference should fix the principles under which Korea's internal political problems will be solved; 4) Regarding settle. - ment of Formosa, the issue is now narrowed to withdrawal of American forces including the fleet which President Truman has publicly stated will be withdrawn when the Korean issue is settled; and 5) regarding the legitimate status of Communist China, the clarification statement merely says that its affirmation should be insured. In reply to Pannikar's ques - tion whether they would insist on its being affirmed as from the time of the conference, the Chinese spokesman said that if the powers agreed to the legitimate status of the Peoples' Republic it can be affirmed by the con- ference. Bajpai told Henderson that it seemed clear that Peiping was in effect agreeing to begin a withdrawal of Chinese troops just as soon as the UN had agreed to withdrawal of UN troops. In response to Hender- - son's question Bajpai said he thought that Pannikar's idea was that the con- ference could probably coordinate withdrawal by both sides. Bajpai parti- - cularly emphasized the Peiping agreement that the future of Korea should be decided by the conference rather than by the Koreans and said he regarded R T