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    "ocrText": "S\nTELECON\nAmbassador Dobrynin\n5/19/71 2:58 p. m.\nK: When General Haig called you I was with the President. That is\nlegal nonsense.\nD: There is no problem. I will sign anything you like! But really in\na foreign language we usually don't do it\nthere is no problem at all.\nK: Okay. Maybe we'll do it the next time we are together. But not\nnow.\nWe\nour text and you yours.\nD: On my text I have no problem. On a foreign language usually you\ndon't do it but it's no problem to me.\nK: The next time we are together we may do it, but let's not raise any\nunnecessary complications.\nD: Okay.\nK: And by tomorrow Tass will issue the exact text?\nD: In Moscow. From there they may translate it their own way.\nK: For an English text?\nD: It might be better to tell them to send the English text. The usual\nprocedure is fxxxx this: In Moscow they will get from the government the\nRussian text, to which they are obliged to put in every comma as it is.\nK: No problem with that.\nD: Second, our people in Tass may translate on their own, without\nanyone from the government, as exact translation from the Russian.\nK: I think it is best if it is English if they did the same thing\nafter all we accepted the text you gave us.\nD: We will tell Tass here to take your English text and send it to Moscow.\nThis is really no question.\nK: No, it's not a government-to-government thing.\nD: No, no, just ask them here to send it. Otherwise I am sure my Minister\nwill never call and say\nabout the translation. The point is yours\nand ours are identical.\nK: Okay, and on the other matter I don't think there is any necessity.\nD: For to speak legally, each person should initial his own version;\nyou don't initial the foreign texts."
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