Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, United Nations and General International Matters, Volume II

478. Telegram From the Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State¹

New York, December 11, 1959—midnight.

Delga 689. Re: Outer Space. Kuznetsov called on Lodge this morning. After certain amount of preliminary bantering about possible shifts in US position and after Lodge pressed Kuznetsov to accept Lebanon, latter expressed agreement on Lebanon as 5th neutral. Regarding amendment on conference participation, which Lodge repeated we must have, Kuznetsov said that he would speak against it and vote against it but if amendment adopted, USSR would nevertheless vote for res and participate in comite. Russians produced typewritten text, including names of countries which we checked together.

Lodge expressed his pleasure at results of negotiations which he hoped augured well for future cooperation between US in outer space field as well as in other areas.

Lodge then reviewed cosponsorship to which we had previously agreed and suggested addition of Japan. Kuznetsov agreed and proposed Romania also be added. Lodge agreed. We told Kuznetsov we would wish to inform our group of results of our discussions and would then be prepared to submit res early in afternoon. (This mtg reported Delga 690.²)

Res submitted to Secretariat immediately after lunch.³

Lodge

1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 320.5701/12–1159. Confidential.
2. Dated December 11 (midnight). (Ibid.)
3. For text of the two-part resolution (1472A and B (XIV)), adopted unanimously by the General Assembly on December 12, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 1396–1397.