Uepartme t of State CONFIDENTIAL 463 01 GENEVA @2831 1616482 44 ACTION ACDA 2Q INFO sso OO OSIE ag cco DODE 304EA GEIINR 67 10 l3aL 03 NASA A4 NEA 13 NSAE ao vsc 10 01c 05 031 QIIP O4 Rsc 03 86 El SCI 05 59 02 88 BQIRSR 01 171 1615132 MAR 68 ZFF-4 cM USMISSION GENEVA 1 T0 SECSTATE HASHDC IMMEDIATE 7056 INFO AMEMBASSY BONN 963 AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS 1O45 AMEMBASSY LONDON 1291 AMEMBASSY Moscow 639 AMEMBASSY NEH DELHI 256 AMEMBASSY ROME 839 USMISSION NATO 243 USMISSION USUN I722 AMEMBASSY TOKYO 449 0 I I A GENEVA 2831 DISTO NATUS BUSEC SUBJECT NPT AMENDMENTS Two RUVHGV 2831 i I I A REF STATE 122376 NJTAL 1 ROSHCHIN THAT USSR ACCEPTS SWEDISH AMENDMENTS or FEBRUARY 8 PARA ON CTB WITH MINOR CHANGE SUGGESTED av Us QEVISION o ON OISARMAMENT AND PERIODIC QEVIEW IN ARTICLE V1111 AND UK AMENDMENT To ARTICLE vrzi To INSURE TNAT THE CAN BE sovs WISH As SUGEEQTED av SWEDEN INSERT cre PARA As 1de CONFIDENTIAL DECLASSIFIED Authority JIM 393 Department 0' State CONFIDENTIAL PAGE De GENEVA @2531 1016482 PREAMBULAR PARA NHICH NOULD FOLLOW PARA READING THE COOPERATION OF ALL STATES RE UK IMPROVING AMENDMENTS NOT Now INCLUDING SAID THESE COULD BE CONSIDERED AT LATER STAGE NHEN TREATY LANGUAGE IS BEING POLISHED- e FOSTER INOUIRED US SUGGESTION FOR PRFPARATORY COMMISSION TO PREPARE FOR HAS NOT INCLUDED IN SOV RESPONSE REPLIED HIS INSTRUCTIONS DID NOT INCLUDE ACCEPTANCE THIS POINT AND IT WOULD BE MUCH SIMPLER MERELY TO ACCEPT SWEDISH AMENDMENTS DO NOT INCLUDE PREPARATORY COMMISSION PROVISION EOR PREPARATORY I HOMMISSION IS NOT WIDELY RNONN AND THEREFORE MIGHT CAUSE NEN DEBATE NITH REQUIREMENT NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANY DELS AND THUS CAUSE DELAY ROSHCHIN ALSO AFFIRMED THAT SOVS DO NOT WISH ACCEPT PAGE THREE RUFHGV e831 I I A ANY OF SWEDISH FEBRUARY 13 AMENDMENTS- REGARD TO UR DESIRE DELETE REFERENCE TO STATES IN ARTICLE ADDED SOVIETS DO NOT NISH MAKE ANY CHANGES THIS ARTICLE SOT HE COMMENTED THIS DID NOT EXCLUDE POSSIBILITY CONSIDERING SELETION SECOND REFERENCE TO AT SOME LATER DATE- 3o IN RESPONSE TO FOSTER QUESTION ROSHCHIN SAID HE onLg NOT TO FILL IN BLANK ON DEPOSITARIES HE THOUGHT BETTER IMPRESSION NOULD BE CREATED IN GA BY LEAVING BLANK OPEN IF ASKED NE SAY THAT HE HAVE UNDERSTANDING TO INSERT NAMES OF AND USSR HOHEVER Is STILL OPEN FOR FRANCE TO ACCEPT TREATY AND BECOME DEPOSITARY 4 RUSHCHIN THAT SPECIAL MEETING OF ENDC BE ARRANGED poa 4 gg P M GENEVA TIME MONDAY MARCH II IN ORDER PRESENT NEH TREATY TEXT HE THOUGHT BEST PROCEDURE WOULD BE TO PRESENT REVISED TREATY TEXT As ANNEX A 0F DRAFT FINAL REPORT cosTER ACCEPTED ROSHCHIN 3 PROPOSAL PRESENT REVISED TEXT IN THIS Imm ON MONDAY AFTERNOON TO INCLUDE SWEDISH FEBRUARY 8 AMENDMENTS AND UK AMENDMENT AS SET FORTH CONFIDENTIAL Depari menI of State CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 GENEVA 02831 1016482 PAGE FOUR RUFHGV 2831 I I A 5 REVISED TEXTS FOLLOW A CTB PREAMBULAR PARA THE DETERMINATION I EXPRESSED BY THE PARTIES TO THE PARTIAL TEXT BAN TREATY OF 1963 IN ITS PREAMBLE TO SEEK TO ACHIEVE THE DISCONTINUANCE OF ALL TEXT EXPLOSIONS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR ALL TIME AND TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS TO THIS 3 ART VII OF THE PARTIES TO THIS TREATY UNDERTAKES TO PURSUE NEGOTIATIONS IN GOOD FAITH ON MEASURES REGARDING OF THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE AT AN EARLY DATE AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ON A TREATY ON GENERAL AND COMPLETE UNDER STRICT AND EFPECTIVE INTERNATIONAL C ART PARA 3s YEARS AFTER THE ENTRY FORCE OF THIS TREATY A CONFERENCE OF PARTIES TO THE RE HELD IN GENEVA SNITZERLAND IN ORDER TO REVIEN THE OPERATION OF THIS TREATY WITH A VIEW To ASSURING THAT THE PURPOSES OF THE DREAMBLE AND THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY ARE BEING AT INTERVALS OF FIVE YEARS THEREAFTER A MAJORITY OF THE PARTIES TO THE TREATY MAY BY SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL TO THIS EFFECT FIVE RUFHGV 2831 I I A TO THE DEPOSITARY GOVERNMENTS THE CONVENING OF FURTHER CONFERENCES NITH THE SAME OBJECTIVE OF REVIEWING THE OPERATION OF THE TUBBY CONFIDENTIAL I DECLASSHHED AuthorityM zz 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