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214. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance and the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ( Warnke ) to President Carter

would undertake an extensive series of consultations with other states. We would begin with key Allies (France, FRG , Japan) and then proceed to other Allies and pivotal non-aligned countries (for example, India, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Sweden, Mexico, Nigeria). The purpose would be to explain and build support for the trilaterally negotiated text. We would expect to receive a number of suggestions for changes, and we, the Soviets, and British would decide whether any of these were acceptable when we got back together for the final round. —A final decision on whether the treaty would go to the Gen…