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MY TELNO 02:
CHERNOBYL:
RESTRICTIONS ON FOOD IMPORTS FROM
EASTERN EUROPE.
1.
SIT.
HEAD OF 6TH DEPARTMENT IN MFA EXPRESSED TO ME ON 20 MAY
THE GREA CONCERN OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK AUTHOR: THES AT THE
BAN ON FOODSTUFFS FROM EASTERN EUROPE. THE CZECHOSLOVAK
AUTHORITIES TOOK THE VIEW THAT THERE WAS NO JUSTIFÍCATION FOR
THEY HAD BEEN FULLY CO-OPERATIVE UN PROVIDING INFORMATION
ABOUT RADIATION LEVELS IN THE COUNTRY AND WOULD CONTINUE TO
MAKE AVAILABLE ALL NECESSARY #NFORMATION TO US. THEY WOULD ALSO
BE READY, IF SO REQUIRED, TO SEE THAT FOOD EXPORTS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME FORM OF CERTIFICATE ATTESTING THE ABSENCE, OF RADIO-ACTIVE CONTAMINATION. JAKUBIK ADDED THAT JAROLIM 'N
LONDON AND CZECHOSLOVAK COMMERCIAL COUNSELLORS IN OTHER
COMMUNITY COUNTRIES WOULD BE MAKING A SIMILAR PROTEST AT THE
BAN.
HE SUGGESTED THAT THE ONLY REASON FOR THE BAN COULD BE
A DESHIRE TO CAUSE DIFFICULTUES FOR THE SOVIET UNION AND OTHER
EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
2. #TOLD JAKUBIK THAT : WOULD OF COURSE REPORT HIS MESSAGE.
HOWEVER HE HAD NO GROUNDS WHATSOEVER FOR BELIEVING THAT THE
REASONS FOR THE BAN WERE POLITICAL HN THE SENSE THAT HE USED THAT TERM. PUBLIC OPINION IN WESTERN EUROPE HAD BEEN DEEPLY
DISTURBED AS A RESULT OF THE INITIAL LACK OF INFORMATION. THE SOVIET UNION AND HTS ALLIES, WHO TOOK AN INTEREST N THE LEVEL OF CONCERN ABOUT NUCLEAR MATTERS IN WESTERN EUROPE, ought
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