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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060064-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: January 19, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

IZO S n JAN 1950.
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GENERAL
1. Gromyko unable to give assurances on Austrian treaty--
US Ambassador Kirk in Moscow reports that the joint US-
UK-French request to Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko
for assurances of increased Soviet cooperation on the
Austrian treaty negotiations received a g 6negative" re-
sponse. In reply to the Western Ambassador' statement
that all outstanding issues should be discussed at the
current four-power talks in London, Gromyko insisted
that treaty Article 48 (dealing with Austrian payments to
the Allies for services and supplies) could not be dealt
with further by the Deputies until conclusion of the Soviet-
Austrian talks now taking place in Vienna. When asked
what progress had been made in the Soviet-Austrian talks,
Gromyko said he was unable to comment on either the
progress of the talks or Soviet intentions in regard to
them. Gromyko added that, meanwhile, the Deputies in
London could discuss other unagreed articles of the treaty.
Kirk points out that Gromyko was willing to study the West-
ern memorandum on the treaty negotiations and observes
that throughout the interview, Gromyko was ' "negative,
illogical and inconsistent," but "not disagreeable.
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