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Briefing Paper for President's Press Conference
December 2, 1959
FRENCH SAHARA TESTS
QUESTION
Mr. President, the General Assenbly endorsed a resolution calling
upon the French to desist from their proposed atomic test in the Sahara.
We voted against the resolution but since it has been adopted by the
United Nations do we intend now to exert any influence we might have on
the French in its behalf?
ANSWER
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I believe the United States can best fulfill the United Nations
desires as expressed in not one but three nuclear testing resolutions
passed by the General Assembly by continuing to exert every effort to
enhance the prospects for success at the Geneva test ban negotiations.
Certainly an agreement at Geneva among the U.S., U.K. and USSR on a
controlled discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests, with provision
for adherence by other states, would be the most effective action that
could be taken to comply with the primary aim of all three resolutions,
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