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After the President's Versailles trip had been expanded to include "unofficial" stops in Italy and Britain, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made it clear that his government would feel slighted if Reagan bypassed Bonn. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was not only sensitive to Schmidt's concerns, he was anxious to have Reagan attend a NATO meeting. Haig helped arrange the shift of a proposed NATO summit from Brussels to Bonn and persuaded the White House to add the Federal Republic's capital to the President's itinerary...
...Luxembourg: "The allies will persevere in their efforts to establish a more constructive East-West relationship aiming at genuine détente . .. Arms control and disarmament, together with deterrence and defense, are integral parts of alliance security and policy." This compromise, first proposed by Denmark, was pleasing to Bonn because it explicitly mentioned détente, while Washington could argue that the stress was on "genuine...
There will be virtually no debate on these issues at the Bonn summit, which is largely ceremonial. Each head of state will have about twelve minutes to present a speech before the four-hour meeting recesses. The final communiqué, which may be split into two sections to accommodate France's reluctance to agree to any military statement, is being worked out in advance...
...summits should put the much discussed strains within the Western alliance in proper perspective. The grandiose displays of unity at Versailles and Bonn will remind all of the participants, as well as the rest of the world, that the allies still share a good deal of common ground. While the Soviets have found it necessary to quash dissent within the Warsaw Pact by brute force and intimidation, disputes within the Western alliance, however deep they may seem, are testaments to what is clearly a more genuine cohesion. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/ Paris, with...
...because we can't separate ourselves out from the others and think that our problems and our economic situation don't have something to do with theirs. If there are any things that need clarification with regard to our relationship as allies, when we get to the Bonn meeting we will take those up. I think the very fact of our proposals recently for arms-reduction talk's means that we need to see each other face to face so they can feel comfortable with any problems they may have about our intentions...