Delegates may give up
• NZPA-Reuter Belgrade Switzerland has proposed that the stalemated European security conference should end without a substantial final declaration. Speaking at a plenary session of the 35-nation gathering, the chief Swiss delegate. ■ Edouard Brunner, said that diplomats should be realistic in this final stage. It was unrealistic to seek a substantial final document or declaration, because there was no prospect of its being accepted by the Soviet bloc, he said.
The Soviet chief delegate, Yuli Vorontsov, reiterated .that Moscow would not .accept proposals by the ] Western, neutral, and non-ai-ligned countries which went 'deeply into sensitive questions. These include humanitarian issues, East-West exchanges of information, and a thorough evaluation of progress or lack of it since the 1975 Helsinki accords. Western delegates said they had long feared that, the tough Soviet negotiating position with its rejection of human-rights discussions ■ would lead only to a brief (concluding document, setting lout little more than an [agreement to meet again in [two years time in Madrid.
| Malta, Yugoslavia, and [Rumania objected, -saying [that this would amount to a [euthanasia operation on the I conference.
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