Mikoyan Talks May Range Widely

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29992, 29 November 1962, Page 15

Mikoyan Talks May Range Widely

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, November 28. The White House talks on Thursday between President Kennedy and the Soviet Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Mikoyan) are expected to cover a broad range of issues.

The still-unsolved Cuban dispute will be on the agenda, the Associated Press said, but with the main part of the crisis over, the talks are likely to be broadly based. Mr Mikoyan is expected to see the Secretary of State (Mr Rusk) and other United States officials during his stay. President Kennedy is expected to talk to Mr Mikoyan about disarmament and a nuclear test ban and other items, including a reduction of East-West tension generally. In their public exchange of messages proposing a Cuba settlement, both Mr Kennedy and the Soviet Prime Minister (Mr Khrushchev) spoke of the possibility of going on to new efforts to hold back the arms race. The deputy chief of the

Soviet delegation to the United Nations (Mr Platon Morozov) told the General Assembly’s Main Political Committee yesterday that his country favoured holding an international conference soon to sign such a convention outlawing nuclear weapons. “It would foster confidence and help peace,” he said. “It would be a step toward the goal of general and complete disarmament.’ ’

But. he said the West preferred to live under the monstrous shadow of the nuclear bomb, and was hindering efforts towards general disarmament by its “policy of the nuclear threat.”