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...first, the Chinese had been unenthusiastic about the job, perhaps because its franchise overlaps that of the Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, who happens to be the Soviet Union's Leonid Kutakov. But in the end they accepted, apparently deciding that the new post would strengthen their influence in Africa and Asia-and give them a chance to needle Western powers on colonial issues...
...Kutakov reiterated previous proposals of the Russian government to eliminate foreign military bases, to stop stationing troops, American or Soviet, in foreign countries, and to ban underground testing of nuclear weapons...
...Russia has decided that no inspection is necessary. "The Soviet Union believes in a certain amount of trust," Kutakov said. He added that due to the perfection of the systems of detecting underground tests, "it is hard to believe that after a disarmament agreement was reached, any government would try to conceal an underground test that could so conceivably be detected...
...Kutakov did recognize the necessity of regular inspection once total disarmament is adopted by the world's major powers. He said, however, that this was a problem to be faced only when a worldwide agreement had been signed to destroy all nuclear stockpiles and all means of production of these weapons...
...Kutakov denied the reports that appeared yesterday in the American press, that Soviet troops were stationed in Mongolls. I'e said that these reports were "mere rumors, without any real basis...