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 August 2, 1951 By DEB NLT, Date 9-5-80 SECR E I SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS NATO MEETING At yesterday's meeting of the Council Deputies it was agreed that the annual meeting of the Council should be held in Rome in late October and that a preliminary meeting should meet in Ottawa on September 15. It was agreed that the Ottawa meeting should deal with such problems as might be ready for discussion or action and that these would be primarily Greece - Turkey and financial and economic problems. It was also agreed that, in the discretion of each government, its Foreign, Finance and Defense Minis - ters would attend. Our Acting Deputy left no doubt that he considered the only important reason for the Ottawa meeting was the solution of the Greece-Turkey problem, and he accepted the Ottawa meeting only on the condition that other members would make a serious effort to reach a final decision at that time. The Canadian Deputy told our Acting Deputy that Canadian Foreign Minister Pearson has returned from a trip through Scandinavia with the impression that we will not meet too much opposition from other NAT members in getting Greece and Turkey accepted. INDIA-PAKISTAN An officer of our Embassy in London has seen the report from the British High Commissioners in New Delhi and Karachi describing the reactions of Zafrullah and Bajpai to the British representatives concerning the India - -Pakistan tensions. Both Zafrullah and Bajpai made "polite but somewhat equivocal" remarks, the general tenor of which was that their own respective positions were un- assailable and that concessions should be made by the other side. Bajpai did not comment on a suggestion that UN observers might be sent to the Punjab frontier. Zafrullah's reaction to a similar suggestion was thathis government had thought of this possibility, but was reluctant to ask the Security Council to take any kind of action at present, although it might later appeal to it if the situation did not improve. EGYPT Ambassador Gifford reports that at the con- clusion of a discussion with him on Iran Foreign Secretary Morrison took the occasion to urge that the US and UK stay in S-E-C R E T