'9 Aurhontngin Disease-Ion - DEPARTMENT or STATE 17f A Mae 5 La ggng 42 ARA - mw_ mm I Original to be Filed in Decentralizedfi Iles FILE DESIGNATI I dugrCONFIDENTIAL 6579 lag P l0 No To Amembassy Moscow 5 ti INFO BONN PARIS LONDON GENEVA Jaw I - i I - I lg g m 87 AGR 3 FROM Department of State DATE LAB TAR a 9MB Kosygin's Remarks on Non-Proliferation in London 3 9395 5 33 REF Moscow's A-1248 February 21 1967 'lip- 5 ho There are now three versions of what Kosygin said in his We at - London press conference on February 9 about FRG acceSSIonr to a non proliferation treaty the Pravda version reported in A-1248 the F313 version based on the interpreter's English translation and the Department's translation from a VGA tape recording of the press conference The VOA tape indicates that Kosygin speaking in Russian 99 actually said As to the Federal Republic of Germany I must say that whether she wants this or not such a mnTeman document should be This differs from the Tm Adwnl m Pravda version as well as from the FBIS report which reads 233 As for the question related to the German Federal Republic Mn I wish to say that whether it wants to or not it will have ZPOL to sign that econ 9 I emu For the Embassy's information there follows the complete jinn text of Kosygin's reply to the question on non proliferation MD translated from the VOA tape recording USIS You see I must tell you that we are for non proliferation _ of nuclear weapons and we state decisively that the tine $39 has come when it should be forbidden to proliferate 2 a nuclear weapons in taking this position we do so not 23 FILE Action Taken Group 3 21 5 99999 9999999 5 wangraded at _12 year intervals Dan not aubmatica11y declassified jmma I insan - Draf red Drafting Date Phone No Contents and Classification Approve y RJHa nhgton 31 3 1 67 I 4370 SUV - Mr Mala K ACDA -- - Mr Leon CA-6579 3 CONFIDENTIAL because we fear that still another competitor in nuclear weapons will appear We think that mankind does not need nuclear weapons if it wants to live on Earth and survive 'The discussions of_this new document at the present time indicate apparently that in the very near future all will come to the unanimous decision to prohibit nuclear weapons As to the Federal Republic of Germany1 I must say that whether she wants this or not such a document should be signed1 because we will not allow the Federal Republic of Germany to possess nuclear weapons We will do everything necessary to ensure that she not possess them and will take measures designed to prevent the possibility of her possessing_nuclear weapons we say this with all determination END RUSK Enclosures 1 Memo of 2 21 67 re Kosygin's Press Conference 2 Language Services translation of Kosygin's Press Conference                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu