Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Aide)230 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE the WASHINGTON Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 E.O. 12065, August 1, 1951 State By DEB NLT, Date 9-5-85 T OP S E 6 R T SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS NATO MEETING In view of the widespread insistance by other members of the Council of Deputies in London that there should be a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Ottawa in September, we have agreed on the following conditions: 1) a serious attempt will be made to reach a decision on Greece and Turkey; 2) the meeting will be announced as preliminary to an October meeting; 3) the NATO and Middle East command structure will not be decided at the September meeting, and therefore there will be no prior meeting of the Military Committee; 4) there will be no major substantive discussion of Germany or the "gap" in September; 5) the meeting will deal with "such problems as may be ready for discussion or action"; and 6) the meeting will be attended by Defense Ministers as well as by Foreign and Finance Ministers if the countries so desire. CZECHOSLOVAKIA Both Britain and France have declined to join us in suspending Czech airlines overflights over Western Germany, although they have agreed to reduce the clear- ances to a day-to-day basis rather than a monthly basis. The British are not convinced that our action, as proposed, will accomplish the de- - sired end but believe, on the contrary, that it will inflict more damage to ourselves as well as the French, Belgians and Dutch, all of whom have flights to Prague, than upon the Czechs. The French have expressed a similar opinion. INDIA-PAKISTAN - The Burmese Ambassador in Karachi told Am- bassador Warren Saturday night that his govern- ment approached simultaneously the Prime Ministers of Indonesia, India and Pakistan with the proposal that the Prime Ministers of Indonesia and Burma make a joint visit to New Delhi and Karachi and offer their good offices to Nehru and Liaquat to ease the tension between the two countries, which the Burmese are viewing with increasing alarm. Monday night, however, the Burmese Ambassador reported to Warren that the proposal had come to nothing. He said that Liaquat was favorably inclined, and the Prime Minister of Indonesia was willing to make the visit, but Nehru refused to go along with the scheme. E