Soviet offer dismissed
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo A peace plan put forward by Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, for the Asian-Pacific region was propaganda aimed at curtailing United States naval strength in the area, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. The official told reporters that the sevenpoint plan was one-sided and showed no consideration for the existing balance of power in the region. In the plan unveiled in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk last Friday, Mr Gorbachev said Moscow would give up its use of the Cam Ranh Bay naval base in Vietnam if Washington agreed to eliminate its military bases in the Philippines. The Japanese official said United States naval forces now present in the region kept the balance of power with Soviet forces by sea, land and air.
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