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ALREADY INCORPORATED BY COPCHAIRMEN IN GENEVA THESE WOULD COVER ALL PRACTICAL POSSIBILITIES THOUGH II MIGHT BE NECESSARY TO MAKE SOME MINOR ADDITIONAL CHANGE IN NEH YORK INDICATED THAT SOVS ARE INCLINED DEAL WITH AMENDMENTS IN ENDC As SOON AS POSSIBLE RATHER THAN WAIT TOWARD END OF 2 ON ARTICLE CONCERNING NUCLEAR DEPALMA RAISED QUESTION CONCERNING TENTATIVE sov RE-DRAFT CONTAINED IN PARA 4 OF REPTEL HE SAID PAGE THREE RUFHGV 1683 REFERENCE TO AS MEASURE NOT TIED To GCD MIGHT RAISE DUESTION NUCLEAR UNDERTAKE TO NEGOTIATE APART FROM GCD SUCH STEPS AS ELIMINATION ALL NUCLEAR AND THIS OF COURSE POSSIBLE FOR us TO ENDORSE AS OBJECTIVE POSSIBILITY OF DELETING SO PHRASE READ ARRIVE AT FURTHER AGREEMENTS REGARDING THE CESSATIDN OF THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE AND DISARMAMENT As HELL HE ALSO SAID sov DEL HAD HEARD THAT HYRDAL SWEDEN HAD IN MIND SUGGESTING THAT EACH STATE PARTY RATHER THAN EACH rw-- NUCLEAR-WEAPON STATE PARTY UNDERTAKE THE OBLIGATIONS 0p 3 THIS ARTICLE SUV DELOFFS BELIEVED THIS CHANQE HAKE IT LOGICAL TO REFER ONLY TD HORD RATHFR THAN THEY THOUGHT WOULD ALso STRENGTHEN POSITION or THE NUCLEAR STATES AT THE CONFERENCE BY PROVIDING THEN WITH QUESTIOQ THEY COULD P055 NON-NUCLEAR SOVIETS THE HEIR SUGGESTIO wO STATE PARTY TO THIS TREATY UNDERTAKES NS IN GOOD WITH ALL SPEED AND 0 SECRET 09 4% 0 00 DECLASSIFIED 9Q LANG 9 Authority Wu 3 a partment of State Anss 0 SECRET PAGE 03 GENEVA @1983 01 0F 02 0517122 AT FURTHER AGREEMENTS REGARDING THE CESSATION OF THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE AND DISARHAMENT AS HELL As TO REACH AGREEMENT ON A TREATY ON GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT UNDER STRICT AND EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL 3 80V DELOFFS INDICATED THEY HERE SYHEATHETIC-TO POSSIBILITY FISHER HAD EXPRESSED FOR OPERATIVE ARTICLE CONTAINING OBLIGATION TO NEGOTIATE SEPARATE AGREEMENT ON PROVISION OF PEACEFUL NUCLEAR DEVICES PARA 3 OF REFTELI THOUGHT QUALIFICATION ON UNDERTAKING T0 NEGOTIATE PAS SOON AS NOULD UNNECESSARILY DETRACT FROM THE THE OUALIFICATION NOT BY ITSELF CONSTITUTE AN ANSHER TO ANY TROUBLEMAKERS ARGUED THAT IT HAS TO NEGOTIATE THE AGREEMENT RIGHT AUAY DEPALHA NHETHER PHRASE SOON As MIGHT BE CONSIDERED kc ON MEXICAN PROPOSAL FOR ART IV REGARDING PEACEFUL USES SHUSTOV SUGGESTED THAT SECOND SENTENCE PARA 2 OF MEXICAN PROPOSAL COULD BE REVISED TO READ PARTIES THAT ARE IN A POSITION TO DO SO HILL INSTEAD OF HAVE THE DUTY TO PAGE FIVE RUFHGV 1083 DEPALMA SAID THIS REVISION HOULD NOT MEET US DESIRE AVOID A DUTY TO CONTRIBUTE- HE SUGGESTED TYPE OF LANGUAGE NE MIGHT HAS IO IN A POSITION DO SO SHALL ALSO COOPERATE IN CONTRIBUTING ALONE 0R TOGETHER WITH OTHER STATES OR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES ESPECIALLY IN THE TERRITORIES OF NON-NUCLEAR-UEAPDN DEPALMA EXPLAINED THAT us WOULD PROBABLY NOT HISH INCLUDE REFERENCE TO DEVELOPMENT OF AND SINCE THIS MIGHT BE MORE SPECIFIC THAN NECESSARY sov DELOFFS SAID THEY PERSONALLY SAN NO DIFFICULTIES WITH US IDEAS- So 0N UAR 30V DELOFFS WITH US THAT IT NOULD BE NECESSARY FIGURE OUT RESPONSE BY NOULD NOT BE EMBARRASSING FOR EIIHER SIDE OELOPFS APPEARED THINK THAT MIGHT SECRET I Anth w epartment of State SECRET PAGE 0# GENEVA 01083 01 0F_ 2l 0517122 STRESS THAT UAR AMENDMENTS HERE ALREADY COVERED BY ARTS I AND II T0 HERE RAISED AND THAT HAD HAD IN MIND SUCH POSSIBILITIES NHEN PAGE RUFHGV FORMULATING THE ANTYASOV SAIQ THAT SECOND UAR AMENDMENT To ARTICLE I REQUIRING NUCLEAR-WEAPON STATES T0 CONTROL PERSONS COMPANIES MOST IMPORTANT TO THEM DEPALMA THIS HAS PARTICULARLY AN AMENDMENT HHICH HE COULD SAY DID NOT RAISE ANY PRACTICAL NEH PROBLEMS HE ADDED THAT IT HAS IMPORTANT FOR UAR To BE PERSUADED BY THOSE UHO COULQ Do so NOT TO PJSH THEIR AMENDMENTS Too FAR- 69 ON ASSURANCES sov DELOFFS INDICATED IMMEDIATELY UNDERSTANDING THAT KOSYGIN HAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANTYASOV URGED TAT REAL ANSNER TO ASSURANCES PROBLEM BE COMMON PROPOSAL BY C0-CHAIRMEN FOR DEALING ASSURANCES IN UN CONTENT SOVS CONTINUE BELIEVE THAT IMPORTANT EVEN THOUGH TRIVEDI IINDIAI MAY NOT BE NOU STRESSING DEPALMA AGREED IT WOULD BE DESIRABLE Ir COULD INDICATE THEY HORKING ON PROBLEM BUT HE HAS NOT CERTAIN AS TO NHEN US DEL HOULD RECEIVE TICNS GP-ao TUBBY SECRET i 32 We Ema 7 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu