EASING COLD WAR TENSION AT U.N.

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30210, 15 August 1963, Page 21

EASING COLD WAR TENSION AT U.N.

Ministers Of Big Three To Meet At Assembly (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, August 14. The next major step in negotiations to ease East-West tension will take place during the United Nations General Assembly next month, according to a “New York Times” Washington correspondent. The meeting was agreed upon last week by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, the correspondent said.

The United States Secretary of State (Mr Rusk), Britain’s Foreign Secretary (Lord Home), and the Soviet Foreign Minister (Mr Gromyko) will attend the eighteenth General Assembly, which will open on September 18. The three men conferred after the signing of the m:ted Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow earlier this in-nth.- The treaty left the ■ ay open for explorations of r.< w agreements. The correspondent said it was still uncertain whether France would take part in the conversations. which she had so far boycotted. The French Foreign Minister i Mr Couve de Mutv He* did not attend last year s Assembly session. Dip-

lotnats suggested that if he decided to attend the coming session, his appearance might br taken as a sign of new French interest in East-West contacts.

The New York talks were expected to be preceded by meetings between Mr Rusk and She Soviet Ambassador to Washington (Mr Anatoly Dobrynin). These meetings might help to isolate points for the Foreign Ministers to discuss, the correspondent said.

Mr Rusk is reported to have returned from Moscow with the impression that the Soviet Union, having signed the treaty, is in no hurry to seek other agreements. The West German Foreign Minister (Dr. Schroeder) will fly to London this morning for a one-dby visit to discuss the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with Lord Home. Dr. Schroeder will also see the Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan). The visit is at Lord

Home’s in vitiation. mainly So discuss the aftermath of the treaty.

Dr. Schroeder is expected to emphasise that West Germany must be fully consulted on any further negotiations with the Soviet Union affecting European security. The West Germans still fear unilateral concessions by the West. The British-Ameri-can view that further agreements are not in prospect has been received with relief in Bonn. “Chinese Realistic" Lord Home said last night that the Chinese were a “realistic people” who did not want the eold war to “degenerate" into a hot war. Interviewed on 8.8. C. television, he referred to a broadcast he made on Soviet television last week in Moscow. He said the “essential point” of that broadcast was that the Soviet people had been told by Mr Khrushchev they could progress towards peace. The Soviet leader had said this was because it was no longer legitimate to use force as an instrument of policy. "This is the basic difference between the Russians and the Chinese,” Lord Home said last night. Asked about the possibility of war with China, he said they were a realistic people—they do not want the cold war to degenerate into a hot war. “The more they quarrel with Russia, the more they will find it essential to find other outlets for their trade,” he said.