SALT-TWO AND EUROPEAN CONSULTATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 20, 1972
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECT: SALT-TWO AND EUROPEAN CONSULTATIONS
REF: BON 16998
1. SUMMARY. MENNE (FONOFF .DIRECTOR. GENERAL/STRATEGIC
DISARMAMEI ) BRIEFED EMBOFF DEC 19 ON FRG REACTION TO US
;SALT TWO BRIEFING AND CONCERNING PLANS OF PETRIGNANI GROUP
FOR EXPANDED EUROPEAN CONSULTATIONS ON SALT. FRG IS GRATI-
FIED WITH THE GENERALLY RECEPTIVE US ATTITUDE TO EUROPEAN
PAPERS, AND HOPES, WITH AID OF. THE FORTHCOMING IS PAPER,
THAT EUROPEANS WILL ELABORATE FURTHER CONSENSUS WITH US ON
POINTS SUCH AS FBSO WHILE ME'NINE. HOPES THE PETRIGNANI GROUP
ACTIVITIES WILL DEVELOP A LIFE 'INDEPENDENT OF US BRIEF-
INGS~ HE EMPHASIZED THAT, UNLIKE EC POLITICAL COMMITTEE,
THE PETRIGNANI GROUP WILL NOT ADOPT GROUP POSITIONS PER SE
AND WILL NOT DESIGNATE A SPOKESMAN FOR CONVERSATIONS WITH
LE WITHIN ALLIANCE. END SUMMARY.
2. MENNE SAID THE GERMANS WERE VERY PLEASED WITH BOTH THE
DEC 15 U$ BRIEFING ON SALT TWO?I AND THE FORTHCOMING WAY
AMR FARLEY WELCOMED THE UK9 DUTCH AND FRG NATIONAL CONTRI-
BUT IONS SAYING ALL EUROPEAN REPS HAD IN MIND SENATOR
JACKSON?S ADVICE TO INTENSIFY THE EUROPEAN ROLE IN THE
ALLIED DIA
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GUE ON SALT (BONN 1'5918) MENNE NOTED THE
"RELIEF" WITH WHICH THE, EUROPEANS GREETED THE UNDERSTANDING
AMERICAN ATTITUDE. HE THOUGHT THE EXPRESSED US WILLINGNESS
TO DRAW ON SOME EUROPEA-N SUGGESTIONS MET THE ESSENTIAL
EUROPEAN CONCERN AT THIS. POINT, THEREBY MAKING IT UNNECES-
SARY NOW T O FACE DIRECTLY THE "RATHER BOLD" SUGGESTIONS
OF SPIERENBERG (NETHERLAND:S). AND DE STAERKE (BELGIUM) THAT
THE US SHOULD SEEK ALLIANCE BLESSING BEFORE TAKING POSITIONS
WITH THE USSR ON FBS9 ETC. , AT THE BILATERAL SALT BARGAIN-
ING TABLE.
3. IN MENNE ?S VIEW, THE CONTINUED US READINESS TO DEVELOP-"
A CONSENSUS WITHIN THE ALLIANCE ON ISSUES OF DIRECT CtN-
CER N T O THE EUROPEANS SHOULD AVOID THE NEED FOR SUCH CO>N:m
FRONTATIONS0 TO THAT END, SAID MENNE, THE UK, DUTCH AND.
FRG HAD TABLED INITIAL PAPERS ON SALT TWO, AND THE PETR-IG
NANI GROUP WOULD INTENSIFY ITS CONSULTATIONS, INDEPENDENT
OF MEETINGS HELD ON THE MARGINS OF US SALT BRIEFINGS;
(MENNE COMMENTED THAT ADVANCE US PAPERS BEFORE SALT BRIEF-
INGS FACILITATED THESE EN MARGE MEETINGS).
4. MENNE NOTED THAT, IN SUMMING UP, SYG LUNS HAD DISTIN-
GUISHED BETWEEN THE US PRESENTATION AND THE THREE EURO-
PEAN NATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS, AND HAD SUGGESTED THAT THE
IS SHOULD INDICATE BY EARLY JANUARY, AS A FURTHER CONTR I-
BUTION, WHERE -T-HE--ALLIES' STOOD ON ISSUES OF BASIC IMPORTANCE.
ONCE THE IS PAPER IS CIRCULATED, MENNE EXPECTS THE PETRIG-
NANI GROUP TO FOCUS FURTHER ON A) US PRESENTATIONS,
B) EUROPEAN NATIONAL PAPERS AND C) THE IS PAPER.
5. MENNE SAID FARLEY HAD INDICATED THAT US SIDE AGREED
WITH SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE VIEWS IN EUROPEAN PAPERS; '
THE EUROPEANS NEXT WOULD SEEK TO CLARIFY THERE VIEWS AND
EXAMINE ISSUES AND US INTERESTS FURTHER IN AN EFFORT TO
EXPAND THE SCOPE OF THE CURRENT ALLIED CONSENSUS. THIS
WOULD BE DONE IN THE PETRIGNANI GROUP BUT ALSO IN THE
ALLIANCE. WHILE THE FRG IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THE IS PAPER
SHOULD BE TACKLED AT NATO BY THE COUNCIL OR BY SALT
EXPERTS, MENNE SAID THE UK FAVORED TREATING THE TOPIC ON
A MORE. POL IT ICAL LEVEL , IN THE COUNCIL; BONN HAS NO
OBJECTIONS TO THIS PROCEDURE. IN ANY EVENT, MENNE EXMPHA-
SIZED THAT VISIBLE EFFORTS TO ENHANCE ALLIED CONSENSUS SHOULD
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SATISFY THE BELGIANS AND DUTCH AND DEFUSE FORMER BACKGROUND
TENSIONS WITHIN THE ALLIANCE ON SALT.
6. IN REPLY TO EMBOFF?S QUESTION, MENNE SAID THE CHARAC?
.TER OF THE PETRIGNANI GROUP IS DISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE
EC POLITICAL COMMITTEE, SINCE THE EUROPEAN SALT GROUPING
HAS NO FORMAL EXISTENCE, CHARTER OR SPOKESMAN, AND ADOPTS
NO FORMAL POSITIONS. HE INDICATED THAT THE BRITISH SO FAR
HAVE PROVIDED THE LEAD AND MENNES DEPT IN GERMAN FONOFF
FOCUSES. PRINCIPALLY ON SALT. HE SAID THE DUTCH ARE STILL NEW
,TO THE SUBJECT; THE BELGIANS LACK COORDINATION BETWEEN
THEIR FONOFF, DEFMIN AND NATO DEL; LUXEMBOURG ATTENDS OUT
OF COURTESY AND THE FRENCH DO NOT ATTEND; AND PETRIGNANI IS
TOO BUSY WITH MBFR THESE DAYS TO GIVE ADEQUATE TIME TO
SALT. HENCE, MENNE INDICATED THE HOPE THAT, AS IN MBFR
AND NPG AFFA-IRS;- CLOSE' US/UK/FRG CONSULTATIONS WOULD
EMERGE AT APPROPRIATE TIMES ON ASPECTS OF SALT.
7, DEPT REPEAT AS APPROPRIATE TO OTHER PETRIGNANI GROUP
CAPITALS. XGDS?1 (DCM) CASH
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