Secretariat. Negotiations between Soviet and US Academies of Sciences to resume contacts  broken off in early 1980 (8 pp). [R 16 December 1980] Excerpt.

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Return to the CPSU Central Committee
(General Department, Sector II) within 15 days after receipt
(Central Committee decree, St 12/4, 17 June 1976)

Top Secret
SPECIAL FILE

No. St 241/9, 16 December 1980

COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION, CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Excerpt from Item 9, Minutes No 241, of th Central Committee Secretariat

Preliminary talks between the USSR Academy of Sciences and
the National Academy of Sciences of the USA

Agree with the proposal of the USSR Academy of Sciences to hold preliminary talks in Moscow in January 1981 with a delegation from the US National Academy of Sciencesin preparation of a Soviet-American meeting of scienitsts to discuss issues of international security and arms limitation.

Instruct the Academy of Sciences to submit proposals about the composition and instructions [mandate] of the delegation for confirmation by the CPSU Central Committee that have been agreed with the Central Committee Department for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARY

 

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No St 241/9, 16 December 1980

Top Secret
SPECIAL FILE

RESOLUTION

of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee

Preliminary talks between the USSR Academy of Sciences and
the National Academy of Sciences of the USA

Agree with the proposal of the USSR Academy of Sciences to hold preliminary talks in Moscow in January 1981 with a delegation from the US National Academy of Sciencesin preparation of a Soviet-American meeting of scienitsts to discuss issues of international security and arms limitation.

Instruct the Academy of Sciences to submit proposals about the composition and instructions [mandate] of the delegation for confirmation by the CPSU Central Committee that have been agreed with the Central Committee Department for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARY

Results of voting
Adopted at the Central Committee Secretariat meeting of 16 December 1980

Central Committee Secretaries, Comrades

M.A. Suslov – for
A.P. Kirilenko -for
I.V.Kapitonov – for
N.V. Zamyatin – for
K.V. Rusakov – for

Excerpts to: Comrades Gromyko, Ponomaryov, Marchuk, Alexandrov, ??
D.F. Ustinov

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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

December 1980, No 03641/10107

To the CPSU Central Committee

On the reception in Moscow of a delegation
of the US National Academy of Sciences’
Committee for International Security and Arms
Control

As we have already reported, at meetings with the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow in June this year and in the United States in August this year the US National Academy of Sciences [NAS] proposed that we organise bilateral exchanges of opinion concerning issues of strengthening peace, international security and disarmament. The secretary of the NAS for foreign relations, T. Malone, believes that such exchanges will be one way to restore bilateral meetings between scientists which were broken off at the beginning of this year by the American side.

In May 1980 the NAS established within its organisation a Committee for International Security and Arms Control made up of 16 people headed by the president of the California Institute of Technology, Marvin L. Goldberger. The Committee intends to establish and maintain contacts with Soviet scientists and also with academies in Western Europe and Japan. The members of the Committee believe that issues of international security should be considered not only via governmental channels but also through contacts between scientists in order to seek a way to regulate the issues that arise in the field of security and transmit the corresponding recommendations to their own governments without giving them excessive publicity.

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