Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 June 19, 1951 By DEA NLT, Date 9-5-85 SEC R. E SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS PARIS FOUR At yesterday's meeting Gromyko stated there POWER TALKS was no official reply from his Government to the Western note of June 15. Gromyko main- tained the Soviet position on the NAT item and said he had no further comment. Jessup said it appeared there was nothing further to say until a Soviet reply introduced something new for the Deputies to consider, and it was agreed that the next meeting would be subject to call by the Chair- man. We have informed Jessup that we share the British delegate Davies' preference, in regard to terminating the Paris talks, for a tripartite statement suggesting the Soviets can use diplo- matic channels to communicate further with the Western governments. We have told Jessup we think the tripartite deputies shuuld not break off the meeting before a Soviet reply, but that we would want to reconsider this if no reply is received before the end of this week. If a Soviet re- ply is received, we believe the tripartite delegates should allow 24 hours before making an answer or a statement closing out the conference. When the closing out statement is made, we believe it should be a simple statement stressing the Soviet blocking of a CFM and should not be a detailed, lengthy survey which would be too complicated for average public consumption. As far as the date of a possible Minister's meeting is concerned, we think that no advance commitment should be made and that the question should be kept open to meet the circumstances and timing of a Soviet reply. JAPAN The Chinese Nationalist Government has in- formed our representative in Taipei that it regards as unacceptable the formula which has been proposed regarding adherence of a Chinese Government to a peace treaty with Japan. A Government spokesman has stated that the Chinese Government will only accept simultaneous participation with the other allies in a multilateral treaty or a bilateral treaty to be signed with Japan. The spokesman in- dicated that his Government felt the formula was "clearly discriminatory. "