SOVIET AND SATELLITE RADIO APPRAISALS OF THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED CFM SESSIONS

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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momuCTIONs Among the available Soviet and Soviet-influenced radio appraisals of the
CFU Conference results, perhaps the most attention-getting have been the expressions of
opinion to the general effect that "the results.,, represent definite tt13 cause
p y grerre in
of strengthening international cooperation. It should bcnoted, however, that most of r.arrh
favorable evaluations are dovetailed into a previously established pattern of propagwndalke
for crediting the Tit with responsibility for the "agreed-upon decisions," for derogating
the Western contributions to these decisions,' and for ,blwning the Western Powers witty: ,haying
prevented solution of the "fundamental" c er *n problems.
"o Radio Moscowoa 21 June br)adcaet
gaumarmuk 3z= of a PRAVDA article by Yuri Zhukoy,ex- points to the following as evidence of "definite proess'z
(1) the agreement on the Austrian treaty; (2)Ithe 'deci'_sion'!to continue quadripartite con-
saltations in Berlin; and (3) the provision for "the callinig of the next CFM session on the
German question," It Is implied, moreover, that the fact of agreement is of even greater
importance than the aubs'tanea of the agreemaynts--since'', the "true eignificance_ of the agcee-
maont re*obed consists first of all 3n the fact that it marks a'very serious step toward the
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fP1ZAwpA?s Paris correspondent during the conference.'1 Civmnwide distribution by the Soviet
;r radio, his artielea (including this one) have established the line for other eommtentariee
from Radio Moscow---as well as for comments by the Satellite and Soviet-controlled German
radios,
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national " tmosphere , this . agreement o- anb to the set l.an:, of I''th:e oat..' pr c b-isr s for
which the CFL[ was created." Z'hukov fF tA-,t the Confer=+n,~e was of va.:.?ar .111 "dof i inc?
the poeitfons" of the conference.* Satell Lt ar.. Svrriet.-epntrolli Gel
echo Zhukovg s favorable appraisal and give all .ram -l for tnp "pz?:+gress" to th o t`l
Occasional Soviet--^ontrcl~lled German &tatemonts' hie ? cbrr, at off' ~sor~side_ abie ? ^ep of:.*.m?:,at,
is said iri one broad.:ast, for a:cols, that the agieoaents r ached 147.4 zoo t,'-:iii ncthi g.
but also less than what the German ! peop a h5. I good : say:;on to I oxpoct ;" r. _ a r ?a e i
to take the initiative far the restoration of G-erma .;* " a l i t .
" " In probing t2',,9 "'T'ile sighificance' of t.`l
agreements reached, Zhukov' and others eohoiW his) is not .:'meat to stop with gerrrr*i
statementaj of tmrelieredl optimism about either the a reemente or the future C M
For immediately after such statements, he pro eeds to ,ierltre e '
"The real meaning of the agreement toniered consists la gs1y of the fact that it
clearly demonstratep the possibility of r ',aching agreed decisions while the metro:
of ktat7 is left) outside the thr'eaho'.3 of the MM It would be' ez-trt'tw9"4_y gy-a1 for
the cause of passe f 'this lesson would Del completely digested by ths?~ r 3a:' i~ :a.-y
oirolee of the U.S.1who up till now have not yst parted with their,impracticae_.e hope
to dorminate the world."
In fact, a major portion of Zhukorse article, Iaa broadcast by'Moeco>k?, it.lfio d47ignsi to ahoy
that although the Western Powera obstructed "basic" agneemen , they "wer? deprived of +.U q
possibility of breaking up the' talks. They preferred to loo for in agreement on t -- ant
questions 'elatiug to Geiinmy and on the question of the Arian aagreement19 ; ani, " is alway~r3
upholding .he policy of etrengthem~ international cooperation, the USSR delegation f' iy
proved her, good will to 'each an agreed decision" concern-is these questions,
Following his implication that .he Western
Powers initially wanted to "break up the talks"'(orr,, as Lines:ay
t puts it, "to nail the CFM
which h th they we.
in a Western of t possibility o osibilitf " ~ukov pry^eeds .c axplair_ the
"change o " that pr e.may Occurred., Aaoriting the explanation to " io."
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