IO Files: US/A/98
Memorandum of Conversation, by Adlai E. Stevenson, Alternate Representative on the United States Delegation to the General Assembly
Yesterday Gromyko asked for a frank discussion of slates for ECOSOC and advanced Russia’s emphatic wish for the reelection of Yugoslavia and the election of Byelorussia to succeed the Ukraine. I asked him what priorities he had in the event we could not support both and he refused to express himself but obliquely suggested that if we would support Poland and Byelorussia they might be satisfied.
[Page 221]He also indicated that if he could count on our support for two candidates for ECOSOC they would go along with our slate for the Security Council.
I told Gromyko that I would report the United States position to him at an early date.
He assured me again that his Delegation had not yet discussed the question of permanent headquarters and that he would communicate with me as soon as they had, which he suspected would be early next week.46