168. Note From the Soviet Embassy to the Department of State1
The Government of the USSR considers it necessary to state to the Government of the USA the following:
On instructions the Soviet Government has frequently drawn the attention of the Department of State of the USA to the necessity for immediate taking of measures for assuring the security and the creation of normal conditions of work of the Soviet delegation at the 15th session of the General Assembly.
However, as the facts testify, all the necessary measures have not been taken on the part of the Department of State and the appropriate US authorities. As before around the Soviet delegation there is created an unhealthy atmosphere which up to this time is creating obstacles for carrying out the organizational measures in connection with the arrival in the City of New York of the Soviet delegation. A campaign of hostile anti-Soviet public acts is taking on an ever broader character, [Page 329] the preparation by immigrant organizations of demonstrations and picketing and there are being displayed placards slandering the Soviet Union. The Government of the USA not only does not prevent the further spreading of this campaign but even according to all signs connives in it. In particular, the aide-mémoire of the Government of the USA of September 92 served as a signal for strengthening the provocative anti-Soviet public acts.
It cannot be unknown to the Government of the USA about a whole series of anti-Soviet acts being prepared in the period of the work of the 15th session of the General Assembly.
According to available information, in the direct vicinity of the headquarters of the UN and near to the building of the USSR Mission to the UN a systematic carrying out of anti-Soviet picketing is noted. According to the press, there is also being prepared hostile public acts in the region of the dock of the turbo-electric ship “Baltica”. At the time of its passage on the East River as well as along the route of the movement of the Head of the Soviet delegation.
Up to this time there remains unsettled the question of mooring to the dock, the unloading and servicing of the turbo-electric ship “Baltica” in the period of its stay in New York. Moreover, the New York authorities have presented absolutely abnormal conditions of all kinds of insurance in connection with the arrival of the “Baltica”.
The facts as quoted create serious difficulties for assuring the security and normal conditions of work for the Soviet delegation.
The Soviet Government once again draws the attention of the Government of the USA to the necessity of creating normal conditions for the work of the Soviet delegation at the 15th session of the General Assembly and for taking all the necessary measures for assuring its security. The Soviet Government expects that in the first place urgent measures will be taken for removing the concrete abnormalities listed above.
- Source: Department of State, Central Files. 320/9–760. Limited Official Use. Translation. Transmitted priority to USUN in telegram 427, September 17, which is the source text.↩
- See Document 156.↩