NATO: MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2007
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• Publication Date: December 8, 1982
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NATO: Meeting of Foreign Ministers
NATO Foreign Ministers meet tomorrow and Friday to discuss
arms control, force modernization, and East-West relations, but
Spain will not sign the final communique.
Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez announced in a press
conference in Madrid yesterday that Spain "will abstain
with respect" because of its current review of its NATO
membership. The announcement was made following the
first cabinet meeting of the new Spanish Government.
Comment: The other Allies, except Greece, will sup-
port NATO's decision to proceed with INF modernization
unless concrete results are achieved at the Geneva nego-
tiations. Although Denmark's parliament voted yesterday
to suspend its INF infrastructure pa ments the Danes
probably will endorse the decision.
The Allies will endorse the zero option negotiating
position and will pledge again to welcome all con-
structive Soviet proposals at Geneva. West German
Foreign Minister Genscher may urge the Allies to respond
to a recent report of the USSR's willingness to discuss
the European conventional arms balance.
The Canadians, Norwegians, Danes, and Greeks have
urged moderation in dealing with the new Soviet leader-
ship. Almost all the Allies oppose specific reference
to NATO's declaration of last January that Poland has to
lift martial law, release political detainees, and
engage in dialogues with the Church and Solidarity before
normal relations with the West can resume. The French
prefer coordinating Western economic policy with the
Eastern Bloc in other forums that include West European
neutrals and Japan, and Paris wants language dealing
with East-West economic relations deleted from the final
communique,.
The Allies almost certainly will not ask the US to
change the agreed INF negotiating position. At the same
time, they will need to show flexibility at Geneva and
at the MBFR and CSCE talks to undercut their domestic
critics and enlist.support for missile deployments sched-
uled for next year. They probably will. react cautiously
to a lifting of martial law in Poland but are likely to
reassess applicability of the NATO guidelines.
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