220. Letter From Yugoslav President Spiljak to President Reagan1
I would like to express my sincere thanks for your friendly letter2 and of your generous hospitality and kind attention accorded us during our visit to your beautiful country. Our pleasant meeting and the talks conducted with you and your associates, which I remember with great pleasure, assured me once again of the mutual wish and readiness of our two countries for the further development of stable and traditionally good relations between Yugoslavia and the United States.3
The broad and frank exchange of views during our visit confirmed the usefulness of such high-level meetings aimed at our better mutual acquaintance and cooperation in the interest of international peace and understanding.
I would like to emphasize once again that the Yugoslav Government and peoples highly appreciate your support to our efforts towards economic stabilization and the measures taken by the U.S. authorities to suppress anti-Yugoslav terrorist activities on United States territory.
We are concerned over the present very serious and exacerbated international situation. Yugoslavia is actively engaged in the quest for surmounting such a state in international relations. Our intensive foreign policy contacts with world statesmen, including the recent visit of the Vice President of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vidoje Zarkovic to the U.S.S.R. increased our firm awareness of the need to continue all our efforts in order to reduce international tension and resume the essential dialogue between the great powers and the negotiations on arms control in particular.
I fully share your view that the Agreement between Yugoslavia and the United States on Cooperation in the Field of Tourism will contribute to the intensification of contacts between our countries and peoples and to our gaining a better knowledge of each other. We have been honored by your interest in and compliments for the recently concluded Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo which, we believe, were held in the spirit of the noble Olympic ideals of friendship and sportsmanship. We hope that the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles will be a full success.
[Page 646]I wish to thank you once again for the beautiful gifts which will remind me of the pleasant stay in the United States of America and of the meeting with you, Mr. President.
With best wishes,
Respectfully,
- Source: Reagan Library, Paula J. Dobriansky Files, Yugoslavia—Spiljak Visit 2/1/84–2/2/84 (4). No classification marking.↩
- See Document 217.↩
- Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩