US STATEMENT ON POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001000120003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 12, 1982
• Content Type: CABLE

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REFERENCES STATE 007080
1. 1HIS 15 INF-051. SECRET--ENTIRE TEXT.
2. PkIUR TU THE FORMAL PLENARY MEETING, HELD AT THE
BOTANIC BUILDING, AMB NITZE MET WITH AMB KVITSINSKIY
PRIVATELY, AND READ THE STATEMENT CONTAINED BY THE
REFERENCED CABLE, A COPY OF THE STATEMENT WAS HANDED TO
AMB KVITSINSKIY.
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1 AM INSTRUCTED TO MAKE A COMMENT ON RECENT EVENTS
IN PULANU. AS YOU KNOWi THE UNITED STATES REGARDS
DEVELOPMENTS IN POLAND AS A MATTER OF GRAVE INTERNATIONAL
CONCERN. THE FORCIBLE SUPPRESSION OF THE POLISH WORKER'S
MOVEMENT WITH THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE OF THE USSR
AFFECTS THE ENTIRE CLIMATE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR
COUNTk1E5, INCLUDING THE POSSIBILITIES FOR ARMS CONTROL.
11 FUkTHEk HEIGHTENS INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS. WHILE
THE UNITED STATES IS COMMITTED TO ACHIEVING PROGRESS IN
THESE NEGOTIATIONS, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN POLAND WILL
HAVE A SERIOUS IMPACT ON WHAT WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH HERE,
I AM IN5TRUCTED TODAY TO CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO
THE PROPOSAL MADE BY PRESIDENT REAGGAN IN HIS REMARKS OF
DECEMbEk 23. "IF THE POLISH GOVERNMENT "ILL HONOR THE
COMMITMENTS IT HAS MADE TO BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS IN DOCUMENTS
LIKE THE GDANSK AGREEMENT, WE IN AMERICA WILL GLADLY DO
OUR SHARE TO HELP THE SHATTERED POLISH ECONOMY, JUST AS
WE HELPED THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AFTER BOTH WORLD WARS."
THIS PROPOSAL 15 A SERIOUS ONE. IN THE PROPER SETTING
17 COULD BECOME A LARGE-SCALE AND SIGNIFICANT EFFORT
WHICH COULD MAKE A CONSTRUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO POLAND'S
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RENEWAL. BUT ITS REALIZATION DEPENDS
UPON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROCESS OF NATIONAL
RECONCILIATION IN POLANDI THE LIFTING OF MARTIAL LAW,
RELEASE OF DETAINEES, AND RESUMPTION OF THE DIALOGUE
AMONG ALL ELEMENTS OF POLISH SOCIETY. AS PRESIDENT REAGAN
HAS EMPHASIZED, THIS IS THE SOLE PATH TO LONG-TERM
STABILITY IN POLAND AND THEREFORE IN EUROPE AS A WHOLE.
? AS PRESIDENT REAGAN STATED IN HIS LETTER TO PRESIDENT
BREZHNEV, THE UNITED STATES RECOGNIZES THE INTEREST OF THE
SOVIET UNION IN A STABLE POLAND. BUT THE UNITED STATES
CANNOT STAND IDLY BY WHEN THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE
UNITED NATIONS CHAPTER AND THE HELSINKI FINAL ACT ARE
FLAGRANTLY VIOLATED. UNDER THE HELSINKI FINAL ACT, THE
USSR COMMITTED ITSELF TO REFRAIN FROM "ANY INTERVENTION,
DIRECT OR INDIRECT, INDIVIDUAL OR COLLECTIVE, IN THE
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS FALLING WITHIN THE DOMESTIC
JURISDICTION OF ANOTHER PARTICIPATING STATE, REGARDLESS
OF THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS." THE HELSINKI FINAL ACT ALSO
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REAFFIRMS THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SELFsDETERMINA71ON
CONTAINED IN THE U.N. CHARTER.
AS SECkETAWY HAIG HAS SAID, WHAT THE UNITED STATES
SEEKS IN ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SOVIET UNION IS NO
MORE THAN OE ASK OF ANY OTHER STATE, AND NO LESS THAN
15 kEUUIW.ED by THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, THE HELSINKI
FINAL ACT, AND BASIC TENETS OF INTERNATIONAL LAO. OE
MUST bUTH LIVE BY THE SAME RULES. SOVIET POLICY TOWARD
POLAND HAS RAISED DOUBTS ABOUT THE USSR?S WILLINGNESS TO
ASIDE by ITS INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS, AND TO SUPPORT
AN INTERNATIONAL ORDER BASED ON PEACEFUL CHANGE.
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as AMb KVITSINSKIY SAID IN RESPONSE, AND REFERRING TO
NOTES, THAT HE AND NITZE HAD DISCUSSED THIS OUES71ON
IN THIS VERY RUUW ON ONE PREVIOUS OCCASION. HE COULD
ONLY kEiTERATE WHAT THE SOVIET SIDE HAD REPEATEDLY
POINTED OUT, I.E., THAT THE MEASURES TAKEN IN POLAND
BY THE MILITARY COUNCIL WERE THE INTERNAL AFFAIR OF
POLAND AND THAT NO DNE PAS IN A POSITION TO PRESCRIBE
TO THE POLISH STATE MOO TO ORDER ITS AFFAIRS. ANY OTHER
APPROACH TO THIS MATTER COULD ONLY BE VIEWED AS
INTERVENTION IN AFFAIRS TWAT WERE STRICTLY WITHIN THE
JURISDICTION OF THE POLES THEMSELVES.
KVITSINSKIY NOTED THAT THE SOVIET-U.S. NEGOTIATIONS
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND, INDEED, FOR THE FUTURE
OF "OUR CONTINENT." BOTH SIDES WERE EQUALLY INTERESTED
IN THE SUCCESS OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS. THEREFORE, THE
SOVIET SIDE BELIEVED AND STILL BELIEVES THAT THESE
NEGOTIATIONS SHOULD NOT BE LINKED OR MADE DEPENDENT
ON TOTALLY UNRELATED PROBLEMS, PROVIDED, OF COURSE,
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DETk1MENT OF THE PROSPECTS OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS. HE
E.XPkLSSED THE NUPE THAT THE TWO SIDES WOULD NOW PROCEED
10 CAkkt OUT THE TASKS WITH WHICH THEY HAD BEEN CHARGED
BY THEIk kE:SPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS, AND WOULD UNDERTAKE
ALL NECESSAkY EFFORTS TO COMPLETE THIS TASK FOR THE
6ENEFI7 OF PEACE. NITZE
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