Quiet start to new arms-cuts talks

Press, 9 April 1977, Page 8

Quiet start to new arms-cuts talks

NZPA-Reuter Washington ; The United States and the Soviet Union have resumed, their discussions about a Strategic Arms Limitation] Treaty in a meeting between; the United States secretary , of State (Mr Cyrus Vance) and the Soviet Ambassadoi | to Washington (Mr Anatoli Dobrynin). The meeting was the first since the Soviet leadership rejected the two American: [proposals for a S.A.L.T. 11 : I agreement last week in Mos- ' cow. I Mr Vance and the Soviet ■< [Foreign Minister (Mr Andrei], ] Gromyko) are scheduled to , [meet in Geneva to resume (the formal negotiations in •: imid-May. h

I Mr Dobrynin’s visit to the ] State Department was unannounced and meant to be (unnoticed. The Soviet Ambassador’s car entered and (left the building through the [parking garage, and the appointment did not appear on the Secretary of State’s published schedule. Mr Dobrynin did not talk with reporters after the meeting. : A State Department I spokesman later confirmed that the meeting had taken place, and said: “A number | of issues were discussed, inI eluding the arms talks.” The spokesman said he could not , give any details of the disIcussions.