Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity of the United States Government.
This volume is part of a subseries of the Foreign Relations of the United States that documents the most significant foreign policy issues and major decisions of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Five volumes in this subseries, volumes XII through XVI, cover U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. This specific volume documents United States policy toward Soviet Union from June 1972 until August 1974, following closely the development of the administration's policy of Détente and culminating with President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
This volume continues the practice of covering U.S.-Soviet relations in a global context, highlighting conflict and collaboration between the two superpowers in the era of Détente. Chronologically, it follows volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971- May 1972, which documents the May 1972 Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. This volume includes numerous direct personal communications between Nixon and Brezhnev covering a host of issues, including clarifying the practical application of the SALT I and ABM agreements signed in Moscow. Other major themes covered include the war in Indochina, arms control, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSE), commercial relations and most-favored-nation status, grain sales, the emigration of Soviet Jews, Jackson-Vanik legislation, and the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. |
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... questions and projects which had become ripe for completion , that we did not make our way to this question in real terms . Yet , a positive outcome of our consideration of this extremely im- portant question would have major long ...
... question is satisfactorily resolved . ” He stated that " it would not be at all surprising if on one or two of these critical items , we will find ourselves in a situation in which decisions at the highest level of the two governments ...
... question of reduction of armaments in Europe should in no way , -and as we believe , this is the essence of the understanding reached between us in Moscow on this question , -be used for delaying and complicating the multilateral con ...
... question : in what situations would it be valid at all ? 3. On our part we could also mention situations the emergence of which - though they do not look very real - cannot be completely ex- cluded . Say , one of the US allies ( there ...
... question could do so much to improve the situation and political atmosphere as this . No agreements on gas , on maritime shipping , can do so much to restrict war . No other leading statesmen will go down more in history than the one ...