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702. Telegram 168 from Geneva1

Geneva, August 21, 1956, 3 p.m.
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168. From Johnson. Reference Mytel 167.

Following text draft agreed announcement Wang presented today:

“In order to bring about a gradual improvement of Sino-American relations and relaxation of international tension, Ambassador Wang Ping-nan, on behalf of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, and Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, on behalf of the Government of the United States of America, agree to announce: The People’s Republic of China and the United States of America hold that they should adopt measures respectively on their own initiative to eliminate the existing barriers which interfere with trade between their two countries.”

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  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.93/8–2156. Confidential; Limit Distribution.↩