U.S.-U.S.S.R Security Talks A Possibility

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31315, 10 March 1967, Page 13

U.S.-U.S.S.R Security Talks A Possibility

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) THE HAGUE, March 9. The United States and Russia, faced with signs of disintegration in their European alliances, may soon seriously discuss creation of a system of European security.

A survey by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, published today, suggests this.

The survey covers strategic developments in 1966 and their influence on international relations.

It said that both the Great Powers were faced with dilemmas as their respective alliances in Europe showed signs of disintegration.

Th survey appeared in the Dutch journal “Internationale Spectator,” in advance of its publication by the institute, a London-based private international centre for research into problems of defence, security and disarmament. Chinese Progress

The survey said China’s nuclear progress had made Russia begin to regard her as a greater ultimate threat than West Germany. It described Soviet-Ameri-can contacts on limiting the arms race in Die anti-ballistic misile systems as “a hitherto unprecedented degree of communication between potential adversaries over weapons systems directed at each other’s strategic offensive forces.”

The survey said that when General de Gaulle visited

"It appears, therefore, that the time might be approaching for some serious discussion between the Great Powers and the European Powers on the modification of the 20year confrontation in Europe and its eventual replacement by a system of European security,” it said.

Russia last year, he probably discussed the possibility of a European security system in which France would be the principal guarantor. But this suggestion was unlikely to have aroused a great response from Moscow, which still regarded the United States as Russia’s only effective working partner in developing alternatives to the European confrontation of the last 20 years.