SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2001
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• Publication Date: November 13, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Soviet Union
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5C No. 00541/7'3
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CONTENTS
November :L3, 1975
Sov_i.et-US Dialogue on CSCE Implementation. 1
Romania: An Unusual Case of Sabotage. 8
Hard Line from Slovakia
on European Party Conference . 9
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Soviet-US Dialogue on CSCE Implementation
Deputy Foreign Minister Korniyenko responded
yesterday in a substantive way to a US demarche on
CSCE implementation. This indicates that Moscow
feels compelled to engage in a serious dialogue with
the US on implementation issues.
Moscow has consistently held that the provisions
of the Helsinki agreement are not automatically self-
_i.mplementing but must be negotiated bilaterally.
Moreover, with a follow-up meeting of CSCE signatories
scheduled to take place in Belgrade in 1977, the So-
viets :have an interest in appearing to be responsive
to Western initiatives.
Moscow would also li}~e to appear to be cooper-
ative and to be living up to the letter, and even
the spirit of t}ie agreement. Thus, the Soviets
have asserted that they, in contrast to the US, have
widely disseminated the text of the agreement. More-
over, they :have, as provided for in the text, ap-
proved multiple exit/entry visas for US journalists,
a procedure that was also extended to the French
during Giscard's visit.
Appearances notwithstanding, the Soviets are
also laying out the limits to which they will go.
They have been particularly unreceptive on the
military-re:Lated aspects of CSCE, the so-called
confidence-building measures, refusing to acknowledge
Western advance notification of military exercises
or to send ~abservers to them, as provided by the
conference document. They have also stressed the
aspects of 'the conference document they regard as
advantageous, especially the statement on "inviola-
bility of frontiers. "
In addition to putting forth their own interpre-
tations of what the Helsinki agreement does and does
riot require, the Soviets, as well as the East Euro-
peans, have been quick to try and put the West on
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