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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... continue to explore the possibility of obtaining Soviet assurance against using their Cuban - tainted ships henceforth for US - Soviet trade ; if so , and he makes any progress , this would probably obviate fallback to the one - time ...
... continue . Brezhnev goes on to speak further of gas . It is in the ground . It has to be transported and this can be done in either gas or liquid form . Gas is an important money maker for the USSR . Peterson should trust the US ...
... continue to contemplate the most appro- priate ways of its solution . However , the question of reduction of ... continuing war in Vietnam re- mains to be a source of negative influence on international relations in general and , it ...
... continue for an indefinitely long time with all insuing consequences . One would like to hope that those possibilities for political settlement that exist will not be lost . In this connection one cannot but feel serious concern about ...
... conditions ; and ( 3 ) stand fast , and continue discussions with the Soviets to nail down parallelism ( this would probably be a subject for you in Moscow ) . " cracy and the NATO allies quiet for three weeks . June - August 1972 79.