104. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State1
New York, July 19, 1972,
1710Z.
2551. Subj: Exchange of Views on 27th GA With PRC Amb Huang.
- 1.
- In casual conversation with PRC Ambassador Huang some weeks ago, I raised possibility of meeting informally with him, as I do with many other PermReps, to discuss forthcoming GA. I said I did not visualize that each side would be pressing the other for positions on each issue but rather that the exchange would be a general one, touching, however, on both issues and procedures. Huang reacted with considerable enthusiasm. I suggested I might give him a call after I returned from Geneva about mid-July. He seemed very pleased.
- 2.
- I have arranged to get together with him for a chat on July 25. I anticipate that we inevitably will be touching on such obvious issues as UN financing and that Korea and African issues, etc., also will come up. Although, as I indicated to Huang, I do not expect intensive mutual probing on issues, this session will offer an opportunity to get across to him points of particular interest to us.
Bush
- Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, UN 3 GA. Confidential.↩