On July 1, the delegationhad a meeting with M. Woerner—NATO Secretary General. The top NATO official spoke about the need for direct contacts among
representatives of the USSR armed forces, Russian parliamentarians,and administrative structures.In his statement, he responded in a way to our proposals;in particular he said that he had received a written statement from Bush about reductions of American troops in Europe in the near future by 80 thousand men. Woerner stressed that the NATO Council and he are against the expansionof NATO (13 out of 16 NATO members support this point of view).
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