Is it your
If I may follow up on the China situation, belief that what appears to be happening now within China in terms of the political fallout of all of this is increasing influence by the hard-liners, led by Fremier Li Peng?
DAN BAKERS
thats conclusion.
thinks its premature prob
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n is as between the hard-liners on the one hand and t
to supportimore-openness ori he other Wait and sees. I do think its Sun Tear and there is a certain degree-of-flux!
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Q
say that the
Mr. Secretary, did your discussions with Minister Stoltenberg in Washington yesterday produce an expectation that this matter will be resolved before the NATO summit, that Germany and the United States will come to some kind of an agreement on a formulation of NATO policy?
SHARAKER:
say that it has be
sed hopezand vre and posttr
see it concluded before the summit, but not at the expense of our long-held principles respecting deterrence. I don't want to speak for the Minister, but I think that that would likewise be the French position.
Q
Was that meant to suggest the Germans are still clinging to some kind of position that would place negotiations at too early a stage without the kind of progress you want to see in the conventional talks?
SEC. BAKER: The proposal that was submitted to us would certainly fall under the description which you've just given.
We think that there must be we think that the conditions must be
more significant and we think that they must be more clearly expressed and that there must be considerably more progress with respect to the completion and implementation of a conventional forces agreement.
US position?
ere you at all encouraged by the initial response to the
SEC. BAKER: We have not had a response as yet to the piece of
delivered to them only late yesterday afternoon.
paper UP
When do you expect a response, sir?
SEC. BAKER: I can't answer that beyond saying that we understand the German government is having internal meetings tomorrow morning, which will be late this evening or early in the morning Washington time. How about a question here for the Minister?
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