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Kissinger gave a dinner for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in his Waldorf Towers suite and told him of congressional and public concern over Soviet treatment of dissident intellectuals. In a press conference before returning to Washington, Kissinger again criticized congressional attempts to link "most favored nation" status, which would give the Russians trade concessions, to Soviet emigration restrictions. If M.F.N. is blocked, he warned, other countries would doubt whether they "can rely on U.S. performance." Besides, he suggested, no matter how the U.S. feels about the "human values at stake," U.S. foreign policy cannot necessarily impose them on others...
...plea for peace, justice and an end to poverty. He pointedly spoke of "the moral aspects of international coexistence. It is peace that benefits if people and information can move as freely as possible across boundaries," he declared. British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home also echoed that theme. Gromyko's answer was adamant. "We shall allow nobody to interfere in our internal affairs...
Later in the week, Gromyko had a private session with Richard Nixon, who promised that his administration would make a "diligent" effort to overcome objections to improved trade status for the Soviet Union. Initially it seemed as if the U.S.S.R. was seeking to placate Congress when Moscow announced that it had belatedly ratified two 1966 U.N. General Assembly covenants on human rights. One of them declared that "everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own." But there was less in the Russian action than met the eye. Analyses of the covenants in Pravda and in Novoye Vremya...
...convocation of the foreign ministers, may last only a few days. Essentially, it will give each minister a chance to make a speech on general principles and to discuss the proposed agenda for Stage 2. As a result of some adroit maneuvering by the Russians, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will lead off the ministerial round of speeches. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers will be one of the last speakers...
Beneath the bonhomie, say officials who have sat in on discussions with him, he is a very cautious politician. Though much more surefooted now than in his earlier years at the top, he is still not totally at ease in foreign affairs and relies heavily on Gromyko...