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VISIT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MOSCOW 1972

PROBLEM

1. The PU3 told Mr Gromyko in Moscow that the Secretary of

State might wish to accept the invitation extended to him

last October to visit Moscow "about the beginning of next

year". We should try to fix the date of the Secretary of

State's visit airly soon, before programices on both sides

become too filled up. The DTI also want to fix a date for

the next meeting of the Anglo-Soviet Joint Commission:

strong preference is for the first week in January.

ARGUMENT AND BACKGROUND

2. The DTI prefer the first week in January for the

meeting of the Joint Commission because Mr Davies does

not think he can spare three or four days to go to Moscow

excent during a parliamentary recess. This will also be

a convenient time for the CBI and for the businessmen

involved, and it will be almost exactly a year since the

first meeting in January 1971, which the DTI think is the

right interval.

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3. Mr Graham tells me that theSecretary of State already

has the following provisional commitments for the first few months of 1972:

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