Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 June 21, 1951 By DaB NTT, Date 9-5-85 SECRE SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS PARIS FOUR In yesterdays meeting Gromyko handed the POWER TALKS Western deputies Soviet notes in reply to the Western notes of June 15. In general, the Soviet note merely restated that it is willing to send a representative to a CFM meeting in Washington "as soon as the conference of the deputy foreign ministers in Paris will favorably resolve the question of the inclusion on the agenda of the item regarding the Atlantic Treaty and the American military bases". We have instructed Jessupto join with the British and French representatives today in making a statement which will terminate the deputy's conversations. This statement will review the reasons why the western powers feel it is useless to continue the Paris talks and will renew the invitation to the Soviets to attend a CFM in Washington. (Our conversations with Jessup were conducted by telecon. When the telecon material has been reproduced, copies will be forwarded.) IRAN We have instructed our Ambassador in Tehran to approach the head of the AIOC delegation on a personal basis as one businessman to another, and urge him to remain in Iran if such is possible within his instructions so as to be available should any opening for further negotiations occur. The Ambassador is to point out that the Iranians have throughout their history maintained their existance by compromise and bargaining rather then by principle and we believe this phase of the Iranian character is not entirely absent from the present situa- tion although it admittedly has been subordinated to nationalist desires. Our Embassy in London has reported that our view that the British delegation should not leave Iran at this time had been care- fully considered by the British cabinet, but that a decision had been taken that the UK could not leave the delegation in Tehran indefinately. SECRET