Word: bonneli
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...come to the resumption of talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the summer recess, it will be all the more useful to think along the lines of the agreement worked out on that walk in the woods." Five days later, Kohl further fueled speculation that Bonn was shifting its position when he said bluntly that the walk-in-the-woods idea "must be examined further in Geneva...
...truth deserves." The Foreign Minister explained that the walk-in-the-woods plan showed that it was possible to come up with an agreement that did not include the independent British and French nuclear forces, a major stumbling block in Geneva. Still, there may have been other motives in Bonn's renewed interest in the proposal...
...theory is that Andropov may have indicated to Kohl in Moscow last month that he might be willing to reconsider the Nitze-Kvitsinsky scheme. Officials in Bonn deny that this was the case. They note that when West German officials asked Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov about the plan, he curtly replied: "We do not want to talk about walks in the woods. We want to talk about talks at the table." Still, the Soviet strategy from the beginning has been to appear to West Europeans to be more flexible than the U.S. Soviet Foreign Affairs Specialist Genrikh Trofimenko added...
...Brezhnev, the Soviets clearly had a stake in demonstrating that the capacity of the nation's leadership was not again in question because of the failing health of their supreme leader. The West Germans, for their part, chose to believe that no rebuff was intended. Still, as one Bonn official remarked, "In Moscow, you never can be sure...
After the Chancellor's return to Bonn, a government spokesman announced that Andropov had admitted to a "margin of flexibility" in Moscow's negotiating position. The Soviet leader had also suggested that negotiators extend the current session of the Geneva talks beyond this week's closing date and reconvene ahead of schedule next fall...