oo INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of Sta e I ff o AetlOl'I Info I oo 1' 00 RUEHC RUFNCR DE RUFHOL 11s06 096045ta o to' NTJ tut 4S43 ' ZNY sssss ' RECEIVibt PBIL- 6 r- W67 0 R 060340Z APR 67 t2 4 3 A M FM AMEMBASSY BONN I '1 l TO RUEHC SECSTATE WASHDC lMlld Atl ----- ' --INFO RUFNCR AMEPIBASSY PARIS i STATE GRNC ' - - -- I lY j 0 1 BT s E C R E i BONN 11806 N0 D I S VIPTO 75 If ' PARIS FOR VICE PRESIDENT SUBJECtt VICE - 1 PRESIDENT $ 1 VISITt IIIt NONoPROLIFERATION TREATY 1 ti J i 1 ' tN HIS INTRODUCTORY REl IARKS VICE PRESIDENT STRESSED THAT THE NPt WAq A MATTER OF GREAT CONCERN TO THE US PRESIDENT JOHNSON PUT 1 I A HIGh PRIORITY ON IT IT VAS ALSO A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO 'I 0IHER COUNTRIES THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT VlCE PRESIDENT HAD EMPHA IZED IN HIS TALKS IN NETHERLANbS ITALY BRITAIN AND GENEVA o THE SINGLE MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM EXISTING fiETWEEN THE FRG AND THE U S HE WANTED TO EMPHASIZE AT OUTSET THE SERIOUSNESS IOF THIS PROBLEM 2 CHANCELLOR OBSERVEQ THAT NPT WAS BEYOND DOUBT 3 CHANCELLOR STATED THAT THE GERMAN POSITION ON THE NP MIGHt SEEM PA RADOXICAL AT FIRST GLANCE FRG HAD RENOUNCED PRODUCTION OF ABC WEAPONS ON ITS OWN SOIL IN ITS TREATY WITH THE WEU FRG INCLUOING HIS OWN GOVERNMENT HAD DECLARED REPEATEDLY THAT IT DID NOT WANT NATIONAL CONTROL OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS THEY WERE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS MATTER 1 4 FRG DID HOWEVER WANT TO KEEP OPEN THE SOoCALLEO EUROPEAN OPTION A UNITED EUROPE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A MODERN DEFENSE SYSTEM IT WAS THE CONCERN NOT JUST OF GERMANY BUT ALSO OF OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO KEEP THIS OPTION OPEN FRANCE DID NOT WANT GERMANY TO AVE CONTROL OVER NUCLEAR ARNSt WHICH VAS A VIGBPWPOINT HE COULD UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT o ' 5 VICE PRES DENt NOTED THAT US WAS IN AGREEMENT IITM IDEA OF A EUROPEAN OPTION THERE SHOULD BE soME RIGHT OF SUCCGBPSSlON to THE NUCLEAR POTENTIAL NOV HELD BY BRITAIN AND tRANClj IF A UNitED - ROPE SHOULD Evo1 n j -deur r 1 o 'DECLASSIFIED ei r ffl eo 3 5 4 -- - _ o _ __ _ s ih_ _ By NARA Date ID fcjf Copy LBJ Library ' l I ECRET -2- ' ' BONN 11806 APRIL 6 o N 0 D I S r 6 CHANCELLOR COMMENTED THAT HE DID NOf KNOW WHAT SOVIEf UNlGN WOULD HAVE TO SAY ON THIS POINT HE ALSO EXP RESSED HOPE THAT SOLUTIONS COULD BE FOUND FOR QUESTIONS OF RESEARCH SPIN-OFF ETC HIS CABINET WOULD KEAR A REPORT FROM A' WORKING GROUP ON THIS PROBLEM TOMORROW I ' 7 VICE PRESIDENT ASKED CHANCELLOR IF HE HAD SEEN THE LATEST REVISED DRAFT OF THE NPT REAL PROBLEM WAS ARTICLE II I THIS l'IIGHT 'TAKE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HEARING VHAT FRG CABINET WOULD DECIDE ON THIS MATTE ' # ' I CHANCELLOR REPLIED THAT NO DECI'SI6N COULD BE EXPECTED TOMORROW l AFTER REPORT OF WORKING GROUP FONMIN BRANDT AND AMB SCHNIPPENKOETTER WOULD HAVE TO GIVE THEIR VIEWS TO THE CABINET 8 I OF THE GER AN REACTIONS TO DRAFT TREATY AS REPORTED BY PRESS WERE NdfSHARED BY HIMSELF OR BY MOST MEMBERS OF HIS GOVERN ENT SOME PEOPLE HERE CONTENDED THAT TREATY WAS NOT POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE AT ALL HE AND MOST MtMBERS OF HIS GOVERNMENT DID NOT SHARE THIS VIEW HF WAS NOT AGAINST THE TREATY AS SUCK BUT BELIEVED THAT SOME l POIN S OF IMPORTANCE WOULD HAVE TO BE DISCUSSED FURTHER f 1 ' 9o HE WANTED TO ASSURE THE VICE PRESIDENT THAT SOME 0 i 10 THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL PROBLEM FOR FRG IN CONSIDERING NPT WAS _i ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SOVIET UNION FRG WOULD BE TAKING AN OBLIGATION TO A COUNTRY WHICH FOR YEARS AND WITHOUT ANY REASON HAD ATTACKED SLANDERED AND THREATENED IT FRG WAS HONESTLY SEEKING TO IMPROVE ITS RELATIONS WITH SOVIET UNION AND HAD MADE SUGGESTIONS TO THAT END THE ONLY RESULT HAD BEEN A SOVIET NOTE ACCUSING GERMANY OF NUCLEAR PLOTTING AND REVANCHIST PLANS KOSYGIN HAD SAID IN LONDON THAT FRG WOULD HAVE TO SIGN THIS TREATY WHETHER IT LIKED IT OR NOT THE USSR WOULD IF A TREATY WERE SIGNED PARTICIPATE EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN CONTROLLING THE SAFEGUARDS FOR THE TREATY lt VICE PRESIDENT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THIS WAS A SERIOUS POLITICAL PROBLEM HE SAID THAT THE US WOULD HAVE TO TALK TO THE SOVIETS ABOUt -1 THIS HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SOVIET NOTE HAD BEEN IMPOLITE ARROGANT AND FULL OF VITUPERATIONS MAYBE SUCH STATEMENTS WERE NECESSARY FOR PEOPLE LIKE ULBRICHT WHO NEEDED A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE FROM TIME TO TIME 12 FRANK AND STRAIGHT VOROS VICE PRESIDENT CONTINUED WERE NEEDED BETWEEN PRESIDENT ' AND CHAMCELLOR AND OTHERS ON MATTER Ot SAFEGUARDS THIS VAS THE CRUX OF ALL THE POLITICAL DEBATE IF FRG COULD RESOLVE THIS POINT HE FELT -THAT ALL OJ Hi RS WOULD FALL IM LlNEo HE HOPED tklt PICJILIPI ot sar1aUAIDS' COULD ag WORKED oui -MCRET Copy LBJ Library I - 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