AGENDA OF TALKS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28537, 17 March 1958, Page 11

AGENDA OF TALKS

Russian Warning On ‘Tampering’

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) MOSCOW, March 15. Warning that Russia would block any Western attempt to tamper with Eastern Europe, the Soviet Communist Party Secretary, Mr Khrushchev, pressed anew last night for’a, summit conference.

In a bristling speech climaxing the campaign for Russia’s Parliamentary elections, Mr Khrushchev denounced as “insulting” President Eisenhower’s proposal to include in a summit parley the issue of East Europe, an American Associated Press report from Moscow said.

Mr Khrushchev told cheering followers in Moscow’s Sports Palace: “In the event of any new attempt from abroad to change the status of the Socialist countries by force, we will not remain ordinary onlookers and we will not leave our friends in the lurch.’’ Change of Time Shortly before Mr Khrushchev spoke, the Foreign Ministry proposed moving back the time of a summtt parley from June to July. The Ministry renewed proposals that a Foreign Ministers’ meeting be held next month to decide the agenda of a top level conference. [The West has rejected Soviet limitations on Foreign Ministers’ discussions and refused to set a date for any summit meeting until agreement can be reached on its topics.] Mr Khrushchev said that Russia would hold to its determination to keep German unification off any summit agenda. Reunification would work itself out if foreign troops were withdrawn from Europe and both German Governments were given a chance to establish normal relations, he said. Mr Khrushchev, who was speaking at an election meeting at the Moscow Sports Palace, listed six issues which should be discussed between East and West. The six points were: An immediate A-bomb and Hbomb test ban. Renunciation of nuclear weapons by Russia, Britain and the United States. An atom-free zone in Central Europe. A non-aggression pact between N.A.T.O. and the Warsaw Pact. Reduction of foreign troops in Germany and other European States. Measures to prevent sudden attack, the easing of tension in the Near and Middle East, the broadening of trade and the cessation of war propaganda.