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Nikita Khrushchev UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 80 Date 12/06/2006 Time 2:11:33PM S-0882-0003-02-00001 Expanded Number S-0882-0003-02-00001 Items-in-USSR - Nikita Khrushchev Date Created 13/08/1962 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0882-0003: Correspondence Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: with Heads of State, Governments, Permanent Representatives and Observers to the United Nations Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit UNITED NATIONS Press Services Office of Public Information United Nations, N.Y. (For use of information media -- not an official record) Press Release SG/1289 15 August 1962 ACTING SECRETARY-GENERAL U THMT EXPRESSES CONGRATULATIONS ON COSMONAUTS1 ACHIEVEMENT Following is the text of a message, dated 15 August, sent by Acting Secretary- General U Thant to Nikita S. Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Moscow: SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO COSMONAUTS NIKOLAYEV AND POPOVICH ON THEIR HISTORIC FEAT, AND TO THE SOVIET SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS WHO MADE THIS ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE. THIS IS YET ANOTHER MILESTONE IN MAN'S GENIUS IN CONQUERING SPACE, WHICH I HOPE WILL BE USED FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL MANKIND. y, "TV BUN? S NEWYORK 75/71 13 I400EDST ETAT FRIOKITE HIS EXCEttENGY MR, N1KJTA S« KHRUSHCHEV CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF HIHISTEHS OF THE USSR MOSCOW IBSSR) SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO COSMONAUTS MIKOLAYEV AND POPOVICH ON THEIR HISTORIC FEATj AND TO THE SOVIET SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLO- GISTS $HO MADE THIS ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE* THIS IS YET ANOTHER MILESTONE W MAN'S GEK'IUS PS/S3/21 IN CONQUERING SPACED WHICH I HOPE HILL BE USED FOR THE BENEFIT?" _ ; ' to OF ALL MANKIND, ^ & " "i •-• _J ' ' .: > -7 ° U THANT - S ^ § ACTING SECRETARY-GENERAL S IM ^ '"..'^ * • '--^f eoi, NIL •^ *•' « ftft OP $iB CDU^C'JL 0? 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POETOMU MY TOJE NADEEMSIA NA USPESHNOE 2AVEJISHENIE PSOISHODIASCEGO V MOSKVE OEMENA MNEN1IAMI PAGES PAGES MEJDU PREDSTAVITELIAM.I SSSR, SSHA I VELIKOBRITANII PC VOPROSAM, SVXAZANNYM S.PREKRASCENIEM IADERNYH ISPYTANII, I DRUGItf VOPROSAM, PRE.BSTAVLIAIUSCIM V2AIMNYI INTERES. SOVETSKOE PRAV1TELSTVO SCHITAET,'CHTO ODNOVREMENNO S ZAKLIUCHENIEM SOGLASKENIIA 0 ZAPRESCENII IA.0ERMYH ISPYTANII SLEEOVALO BY SDELAT I DRUCOI VAJKYI SHAG V MAPRAVLENII. OSLABLENIIA MEJDUNARODNOI NAPRIAJENNOSTI I .^.; '"' - --, J> ::...: H PAGE4 . , 'UKREPLENIIA MIRA - PODP1SAT PAKT 0 NENAPADENI1 MEJDU GOSUDARSTVAMIAUCHASTNIRAMI NATO I STRANAMI, VHODIASCIWI V VARSHAVSKJ-I DOGOlfOR, ; . : •3 OVAJENIEM N. KHRU^HCHOV PREDSEDATEL SOTCTA i • MINISTROV SSSR | '. 20 IIUUA iS"63 GODA G. MOSKVA . , • • \ COL 20 SENT UQ5A EST JR RCP ; UNATION 222422 Reaction to and Implications of the Moscow Talks •with Special Reference to the Role of the UN I. Initial World Reaction There is evidence of growing support among governments for the partial test ban treaty, and of hope that it will lead to further East- West accommodations. Positive statements indicating willingness to sign have been made by the governments of Australia, Brazil,t Canada, Ceylon, f- Chile, Denmark, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Hew Zealand and the United Arab Republic. The Treaty, Tass reported, was welcomed by the Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba. The initial reaction from West Germany and Israel was somewhat restrained. The West German Government called the Treaty "a partial success", while Israel deferred a decision on adherence. President De Gaulle stated that the agreement "appears to us satisfactory, and we even participate in the joy expressed by President Kennedy". He added that France, however, would not be diverted or inconvenienced by the Moscow agreement. The Treaty was only of "limited importance" unless "stretched" to other problems, and France, he said, would seek a disarmament conference of the four nuclear Powers later this year* The only vehement negative reaction has come from the People's Republic of China. Official editorials claimed that the Treaty was "an out-and-out fraud" of the United States aimed at preventing China and "other socialist countries than the Soviet Union from possessing nuclear capability". A test ban would be significant "only when it forms a component part of the programme for general disarmament and the total prohibition of nuclear weapons", (it was reported that the Japanese Communist Party supported Chinese views, while the Indian Communist Party praised the test ban.) II. United States Reaction and Senate Ratification Interest in United States reaction centres on the "advice and consent" which requires two-thirds, or 6? affirmative votes, if all 100 Senators vote. There is evidence of sufficient support developing under the leadership of the President, the Secretaries of State and Defence, the Director of the Disarmament Agency, and the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. A Senate resolution for an atmospheric test ban was introduced earlier this year by 34 senators (28 Democrat and 6 Republican), and a poll taken by - 2 - Senator Clark in the spring of this year indicated that 57 senators were ready to support a comprehensive test ban treaty. The Mew York Times stated on 28 July that it was expected that "the Treaty would have the support of perhaps 80 of the 100 senators on the strength of the argument that rejection would be a heavy blow to the prestige of the US as a seeker of the peace." A recent public opinion poll (Washington Post, 8 July) showed that 13% of the public polled favoured a test ban agreement, as against Yl% who indicated some opposition. Among the Republicans who have indicated support are former Presidents Hoover and Eisenhower, and Nixon, McCloy and Wadsworth. Avowed opposition has come from Senator Goldwater and Congressman Hosmer. The Chairmen of the three important Senate Committees - Senators Russell, Stennis and Jackson - reserved judgment until the Administration's testimony. It is noteworthy that during the past year many detailed hearings were held on a comprehensive test ban and those who were prepared to oppose any such ban with less than seven on-site inspections seem to have been caught by surprise by the partial test ban. By the time a new opposition group is formed, the necessary majority is likely to be in the hands of President Kennedy. The issues that may give•the Administration spokesmen the most trouble are the ban's effect on the development of an anti-missile defence; the possibility of clandestine tests in outer space; the disutility of the Treaty as far as China and France are concerned, and the doubts about Soviet motivations.
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