CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM GENERAL SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-3-4-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 23, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-260-3-4-5
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SONNENFELDT AND'HARTMAN WENT Tq SEE CALLAGHAN AT;THE AMRASSADOR'S.
RESIDENCE THIS AFTERNOON FOR A BRIEF TALK ON THE' NATO DECLARATION
AND CSCE. CALLAGHAN STARTED WITH EXTREMELY COMPL'IMENTARY'R MARKS
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S PERFORMANCE WITH THE CENTO MINISTERS, HE WAS
A LITTLE WORRIED WHETHER HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD WHEN"HE
TOLD THE PRESIDENT JOKINGLY THAT ON THE BASIS OF HIS EXCELLENT
FOREIGN POLICY REVIEW THE PRESIDENT MIGHT PERHAPS CONSIDER JOINING
THE TRADE UNION OF FOREIGN MINISTERS. CALLAGHAN REITERATED HIS
IER MESSAGE TO YOU.THAT HE WOULD UNDERSTAND IF YOU C L
EARLSTOP IN LONDON, MUCH AS HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE'YOU. RAMSBOTHAM SAT
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AFTERWARDS. THAT'.CALLAGHAN HAS A LUNCH IN THE COUNTRY WITH THE
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PORTUGUESE. FOREIGN MINISTER ON SATURDAY.
ON THE.NATQ DECLARATION, HAL AND ART STRESSED OUR STRONG COMMITMENT
TO A "DECLARATION" 'AND TO THE BRITISH TEXT AS WELL AS TO THE . DES'IRA_,
BIL.ITY OF GETTING IT COMPLETED BY-THE TIME OF OTTAWA. HAL SAID WE
DID NOT YET WISH TO ENGAGE THE.ISSUE OF THE LEVEL AT.WHICH THE
DECLARATION MIGHT FINALLY,BE PROMULGATED.. THE BRITISH ARE TRYING TO
GET THE BELGIANS TO FALL IN WITH USING THEIR TEXT' AS THE BASIS."IT
WAS AGREED THAT WE ,AND THE BRITISH WOULD STAY IN VERY CLOSE TOUCH,
WITH CALLAGHAN AGREEING WITH ALL OUR POINTS, HE IS WILLING TO
ENTERTAIN AMENDMENTS0 INCLUDING FROM THE FRENCH WHO SEEM EAGER TO
GET SOME OF THEIR EARLIER LANGUAGE BACK INTO PLAY, ASSUMING 'THEY. ARE PREPARED TO GO FORWARD WITH THE EXERCISE AT ALL. CALLAGHAN DID
SAY HE WOULD NOT AGREE TO INCLUSION OF REFERENCES TO EUROPEAN
UNITY OR ENTITY. HAL AND ART ASSURED HIM THAT WHILE WE HAD ACCEPTED
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SUCH REFERENCES IN THE PAST WE WOULD NOT DO.SO UNLESS.THE BRITISH
SPECIFICALLY AGREED SINCE WE OBVIOUSLY HAD NO DESIRE TO SEE THEM
ISOLATED ON THIS. THE BRITISH WILL INSTRUCT PECK AT NATO To ?PRESS
FOR SPEEDY DRAFTING WORK WITH OTTAWA AS THE TARGET.,CALLAGHAN DID
NOT RULE OUT THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME POINTS LEFT FOR MINISTERS,
TO RESOLVE. HE EMPHASIZED THAT THERE WAS NO POINT TO THE EXERCISE
UNLESS IT WAS SETTLED AT OTTAWA, THOUGH HE AGREED THAT THE ISSUE
OF WHETHER THERE MIGHT BE SOME SUMMIT LEVE. PROMULGATION SHOULD
BE KEPT OPEN. HIS.FEELING WAS THAT IF THE FRENCH ABSOLUTELY
REFUSED TO PLAY, ALL WE WOULD GET THEN WAS A COMMUNIQUE AT OTTAWA
WITH THE DECLARATION PROBABLY DEAD.
ON CSCE, HAL AND ART NOTED THE GROWING FRUSTRATION AMONG THE
NINE IN GENEVA BECAUSE OF SOVIET FOOT-DRAGGING AND THE BUDDING
TENDENCY TO TELL THE SOVIETS THAT UNLESS THEY WERE MORE FORTHCOMING
STAGE TWO SHOULD BE ADJOURNED. HAL SAID HE HAD NOT CHECKED WITH YOU
BUT FELT THAT WHILE CONTINUED PRESSURE QN THE RUSSIANS TO MOVE WAS
ALRIGHT, ANYTHING HAVING THE RING OF AN ULTIMATUM COULD HAVE QUITE
ADVERSE EFFECTS BEYOND THE CONFINES OF CSC=, INCLUDING THE DELICATE
MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY. CALLAGHAN SAID`HE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT HE
PERSONALLY WAS BROUGHT INTO ANY POLITICALLY SIGNIFICANT STEPS BY
THE NINE AND WOULD CONSULT VERY CLOSELY WITH YOU. HE DID+ NOT
WANT THE FRUSTRATIONS OF OFFICIALS TO DETERMINE POLICY. WE NOTED
THAT THE SOVIETS. THEMSELVES WERE BEGINNING TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS
ABOUT DELAYING THE END OF STAGE TWO TILL SEPTEMBER IF THAT WAS
NECESSARY FOR NEW GOVERMENTS IN EUROPE TO FOCUSO THE ISSttFS.
WE SAID THAT IF THE SOVIETS THEMSELVES WERE PREPARED TO G? SLOW
WE HAD NO REASON TO PRESS FOR SPEED. BUT OUR BASIC POINT WAS THAT
.ULTIMATUMS WERE UNWISE.
THIS WAS A VERY GOOD CONVERSATION WHICH HIGHLIGHTED AGAIN
BRITISH IRE ,.I,CLOSEST TOUCH WITH AND
PERSONAL WISH TOOSTAYYINNFREQUENT CONFIDENTALSCOMMUNICATIONNf5
WITH YOU.
WE ARE SENDING YOU,A CSSCE.MESSAGE CONCERNING TACTICAL DECISIONS
IN THE FRONT CHANNEL TOSEC SERIES.
WARM REGARDS.
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