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SEC, BAKER: It's the view of our government that negotiations are a mistake unless there are significant conditions with respect
Preto. We received a proposal yesterday from the German vernment through Minister Stoltenberg. received that proposal,
We responded I'm sorry, the day before yesterday. responded to that proposal within, I think, a 24-hour period and We gave the Minister a counterproposal, which he has taken back to the Federal Republic. And we have not as yet heard officially from the Ser man government about whether or not
or not the suggestions made in that counterproposal are acceptable.
Let me simply say that the President and President Mitterrand reviewed the general outlines of that proposal and found themselves
and I think the Minister might want to speak to this as well in complete agreement.
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The Ambassador will be our interpreter, since
We have examined this morning the problems that have been raised by the NATO meeting in Brussels at the end of the month. President Bush and my friend, Jim Baker, acquainted us with the proposition which was made to Mr. Stoltenberg yesterday. And we can conclude from all this that these proposals are very close to the position which had been taken by the President of the Republic in his very recent press conference in Paris.
Mr. Secretary, you spoke about significant conditions before entering into SNF talks. We've also heard, in background sessions from people, we've heard substantial progress in the conventional force talks being used as these significant conditions. Are you considering a high-level NATO commission to study this is in any way to define the terms yet?
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No.
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