Q C $ 10 ' GBP 1 I t - ---- SECREt STATE INFO ADS-OO LOG-OO AN D90050 -0 CCO-OO 1'002 R DRAFTED BY EUR SOV TEXT RECEIVED FROM WHITE HOUSE APPROVED BY EUR RGHSEITZ EUR SOV SPIFER EURI'SOVtAVERSHBOW NSC W$ITTMAN S S JCARRAGHER S S-O GSTAPLES ------------------366261 OQ0511Z 38 o OQ0351Z JUN 90 ZEX FI'I SECSTATE WA HDC TO AMEMBASSY ASUNCION NIACT IMMEDIATE CSCE COLLECTIVE INFO AMCONSUl LENINGRAD ACT IMMEDIATE USMISSION US UN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE SEC RET DECAPTIONED STATE 178618 EXDIS-ASUNCION FOR DEPSEC EAGLEBURGER TODEP 03009 COR R E C TED COpy FOR TODEP E O 12356 TAGS SUBJECT 1 UMBER 030009 VICE 03 DECL OADR PREL UR US WASHINGTON SOMMIT BRIEFING POINTS SECRET -- ENTIRE TEXT 2 ALL ACTION ADDRESSEES EXCEPT NATO CAPITALS MOSCOW WARSAW PRAGUE BERLIN BUDAPEST BUCHAREST AND SOFIA MAY USE POINTS IN PARA S TO BRIEF APPROPRIATE HOST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ON RESULTS OF U S -SOVIET SUMMIT HELD IN WASHINGTON MAY 31-JUNE 3 PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS ARE BEING SENT VIA SEPTELS TO NATO POSTS WARSAW PRAGUE BERLIN AND BUDAPEST THERE WILL NO NO BRIEFING FOR BUCHAREST AND SOFIA AT THIS TIME SECRET SECRET PAGE 02 3 FOR DUBLIN STATE 178618 I 1 '7 178618 550-01 rp J SECRET PAGE 01 ORIGIN 55-01 Departmerit 'of' o StaR SECRET THAT YOU ARE BRIEFING THEM IN THEIR CAPACITY AS EC PRESIPENCY AS WELL FOR ASUNCION POINTS IN PARA 5 SHOULD BE PASSED TO DEPUTY SECRETARY EAGLEBURGER 5 BEGIN TEXT o PRESIDENT aUSH HAS' ASKED ME TO CONVEY TO YOUR GOVERNMENT HIS ASSESSMENT OF TI E SUMMIT JUST CONCLUDED IN WASHINGTON o THIS MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENr BUSH AND GORBACHEV WAS ESSENTIALLY DIFrERENT FRun ANY U S -SOVIET SUMMIT PRE C 1 REV IOUS o THE ISSUES THEy'WERE DISCUSSING LIE AT THE VtR ROOT OF THE U S -SOVIET CONFLICT THE DIVISION OF GERMANY AND OF EUROPE SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN THE SOVIET MILITARY THREAT AN THE TRANSF ORMATION OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM ITSELF o IT IS A MARK OF HOW FAR THE RELATIONSHIP HAS COME THAT IN ALL THEIR EXCHANGES -- WHETHER ON ISSUES ON WHICH THEY AGREED OR THOSE ON WHICH THEY DID NOT -- THERE WAS A SPIRIT OF CANDOR AND OPENNESS AND A GENUINE SEA CH TO WORK TOGETHER RATHER THAN IN CONFLICT AS YOU KNOW SEVERAL IMPORTANT ARMS CONTROL o AGREEMENTS WERE REACHED o THE UNITED STATES CONSIDERS THE JOINT STATEMENT ON SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 STATE 178618 ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE TO BE PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT THE U S AND tHE SOVIET UNION AGREED THAT A CFE TREATY IS AN INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN SECURITY AND COMMItTED THEMSELVES TO INTENSIFYING THE PACE OF THE VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS AND TO REACHING RAPID AGREEMENT ON ALL OUTSTANDING I SUES CONV NTIONAL o THE BILATERAL AGREEMENT ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS WAS A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH PROVIDING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE GREAT MAJOR TY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE SECRET II SECRET STOCKPILED DVER THE YEARS THE UNITED STATES HOPES THIS AGREEMENT WILL LEAD' QUICKLY 'T'O A GLOBAL BAN Ol'l CHEMICAL WEAP ONS ' o PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRESIDENT GORBACHEV ALSO ISSUED A JOINT STATEMENT RECORDIN GREEMENT ON MA OR O TSTANDING ISSUES GOVI RNING a STRATEG'IC ARMS REDU CTION TREATY ' THEY AGREED' TO BEGIN FURTHER TALKS ON STRA TEGI NUC LEAR FORCE S SPE IFI ALLY DEVOTED TO ACHIEVING A MORE STABLE STRATEGIC BALANCE AF ER' THE C RRENT TREATY IS COMPLETED o 'THEY SIGNED PROTOCOLS ON LIMITING NUCLEAR TESTING PROVIDING UNPRECEDENTED IMfROVEMENTS FOR ON-SITE VERIFICATION OF THE THRESHOLD TEST BAN TREATY AND THE PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS TREATY THERE W RE MANY OTHER AGREEMENTS S GNED AND JOINT -ISSUED INCLUDIN A BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT TA EN TOGETHER THEY MARKED SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN MEETING THE AGENDA SET AT THE MALTA SUMMIT IN DECEMgER TOWARD BUILDING A FUNDA ENTALLY DIFFERENT U S -SOVIET RELATIONSHIP -- ONE THAT WOULD MOVE BEYOND ONTAINMENT TO AN ERA OF ENDURING COOPERATION -0 TA1EM NTS o IN ADDITION TO THE AGREEMENTS THAT WERE REACHED THE SUMMIi ALSO ADDRESSED THE TRANSFORMING EVENTS IN EUROPE SECRET SECRET PAGE OLf STATE 178618 THAT HOLD PROMISE FOR CREATING AS PRESIDENT BUSH HAS SAID A EUROPE THAT IS WHOLE AND FREE o SOME OF THE ISSUES WERE DIFFICULT INCLUDING THE OF THE BALTIC PEOPLES TO DETERMINE THEIR OWN FUTURE -- A CAUSE WHICH THE UNITED STATES FULLY SUFPORTS ASP RATIONS o THERE WERE ALSO INTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS ON GERMAN UNIFICATION PRESIDENT BUSH STRESSED HIS SUPPORT FOR CHANCELLOR KOHL'S POSITION THAT A UNITED GERMANY SHOULD REMAIN A FULL MEMBER OF NATO INCLUDING PARTICIPAT ON IN ITS INTEGRATED MILITARY STRUCTURES -- ADDING THAT UNITED DEMOCRATIC GERMANY MUST ENJOY THE RIGHT AS SPECIFIED IN THE HELSINKI FINAL ACT TO CHOOSE FREELY ITS OWN ALLIANCE AND SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS o THE PRESIDENT ALSO STRESSED THAT GERMAN SOVEREIGNTY SECRET SECRET n T COMPLET AT THE TIME OF UNIFICATION WITH NO DISCRIMINATORY CONSTRAINTS ON GERMAN SOVEREIGNTY 5 YEARS AFTER THE ARI THERE IS NO REASON FOR A UN TED DEMOCRATIC GERMANY TO BE SINGLED OUT FOR SPEC AL STATUS PRESIDENT BUSH-ALsa REAFFIRMED HIS READINESS AND THAT OF THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE TO_ ADDRESS LEGITIMA E SOVIET SECURITY CONCERNS ' HE DESCRIBED HIS HOPE THAT THE JULY 5-G NATO SUMMIT WILL LAUNCH A WIDE-RANGING NATO TRArEGY REvt W AND IS VISION O A TRANSFORnED ATLANTIC ALLIANCE o -THERE WAS A THOROUGH REVIEW OF REGIONAL ISSUES BUT WE MADE NO PARrlCULAR PROGRESS WE CONTINUED TO MANIFEST OUR CONCERN ABpUT HUM N RIGHTS ISSUES AS WELL SECRET S CRET PA E 05 STATE 178618 a PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRESIDENT GORBACHEV DID NOT AGREE ON ALL THESE ISSUES -- NOR DID ANYONE EXPECT THAT THEY WOULD GIVEN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE TRANSFORMING EAST-WEST RELATIONS o BUT THE SUMMIt WAS EXTRAORDINARILY PRODUCTIVE YIELDING AGREEMENT -IN MANY AREAS AND NARROWING THE DIFFERENCES IN OTHERS IT WAS A CONTINUATION OF THE PROCESS BeGUN AT MALTA OF lAYING THE FOUNDATION OF A FUNDAnENTALLY NEW U S -SOVIET RELATIONSHIP TOWARD THAT END PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRESIDENT o GORBACHEV AGREED TO HOLD REGULAR SUMMIT MEETINGS END TEXT BAKER I I SECRET # This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George 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