Office of the Historian

126. Memorandum of Conversation1

Washington, September 18, 1965.

SUBJECT

  • Consular Convention

PARTICIPANTS

  • Ambassador Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, USSR
  • Llewellyn E. Thompson, Ambassador-at-Large, Department of State

Dobrynin asked me what had happened on the Consular Convention. I said that we had been anxious to have the Senate approve ratification by a substantial margin and our estimate was that this could not be obtained at this particular time. In addition to reasons of which he was aware, the President had pressed Congress very hard for a number of important pieces of legislation during this session. I said that we were hopeful that early in the next session we could obtain approval of ratification.

Dobrynin seemed to be relieved that we still hoped to go ahead with ratification.

  1. Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, CON 4 US–USSR. Confidential. Drafted andinitialed by Thompson and approved in S/AL on September20. Memoranda of their conversation on the India-Pakistan dispute and Moscow’s Foreign Office personnel are ibid., POL 27 INDIA–PAK and POL–USSR.↩