INCOMING TELEGRAM • - Department of State CONF IDENT IA L 43 Control Act 1on Rec' d EUR Info SS SR G FROM CORRECTI ON ISSUED 1 28 63 1 A M SMD 15543 J ANUARY 24 1963 2 32 PM ROME - CORRECTED COPY TO Secretary of State NO 1469 JANUARY 24 8 PM SP L H' BTF PR IORIT Y DAC p ACTI ON DEPARTMENT 1469 INFORMATION PARI S TOPOL 43 I OP INR TEXT FOLLOWS BY SEPARATE TEL OF COMMUNIQUE APPROVED 3 PM TODAY BY ITALIAN COUNCIL OF MINS AFTER LENGTHY MEETI NG LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING DURING WHICH P RIMIN REPORTED FOR ONE AND ONE-HALF HOURS ON HIS TRIP TO US AND TALKS WITH PRES COMMUNIQUE STATES TH T CABINET RECOGNIZED VALIDITY OF MULT ILATERAL NATO NUCLEAR FORCE AND APPROVED PROPOSED CRIT ER IA FOR MODERNIZATION OF ARMS OF ALLIANCE COMMUN IQUE ALSO MENTI ONS COUNCIL'S HOPES FOR SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME OF TALKS ON DISARMAMENT ESPECIALLY AS REGARDS SUSPENSI ON OF NUCLEAR TEST EXPRESSED COUNCIL'S PROFOUND SATI SFACTI ON AT FURTHER SIGNS PROV IDED BY FANFANI-KENNEDY MEETING OF SOL IDARITY OF ITALOUS FRIENDSHIP RE ITERATES ITALY' S SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN COMMUN ITY AND ATLANTIC ALLIANCE AND EXPRESSES PLEASURE AT PROSPECT OF PRES IDENT' S FORTHCOMING VI S IT TO ITALY RMR AFTER ISSUANCE COMMUNIQUE PRIMIN SENT ME FOLLOW ING PERSONAL MESSAGE MEANING OF THIS COMMUNIQUE IS THAT THE COUNC IL OF MINISTERS HAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED WHAT WAS AGREED UPON IN WASH INGTON BETWEEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND MYSELF WIT HOUT ANY CHANGE REINHARDT WJ H NOT E ADVANCE COPIES EUR AND SS NOTE CORRECTION RELAYED TO WHITE HOUSE RELAYED WHITE HOUSE CONFIDENTIAL 1 28 63 1 24 63 CWO-L