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VISIT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MOSCOW, 1972
PROBLEM
1.
The PUS told Gromyko in Moscow that the Secretary
of State might wish to accept the invitation exterded
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 fairly soon,
before programmes on both sides become too filled up.
The DTI also want to go firm on the first week in
January for the next meeting of the Anglo-Soviet
Joint Commission.
ARGUMENT AND BACKGROUND
2. Mr Graham's minute shows that the Secretary of
State already has the following provisional commitment
for the first few months of 1972:
January or February
March
April?
West Africa (2 weeks)
Rome, Tel Aviv, and perhaps Amman
★ Australia (SEATO), Japan (Anglo-
Japanese Talks) and Hong Kong
3. This programme suggests that the visit to Moscow
would have to take place in either February (assuming
that the Joint Commission meets in January) or perhaps
in May. Mr Graham thinks that the Secretary of State
would prefer May.
4. The objection to May is that it is rather later
than the kind of date which we had in mind when the
PUS spoke to the Russians in Moscow. We have a full
/programme
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