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SUBJECT: 	~EETING BETWEEN GOV MAYOR BRANDT A~D SOVIET AM8 TO GDR ABRASIMOV 
PEF •• 	RERLINTEL 1044 TO DEPT, 893 TO BONN 
I • PR I\ ND T EL AR OR ATE D 0 N H I S T AL K W IT 4 ARR AS I M0 V AT T 4 r. MONTHLY MEETING·WITH T~E COMMANDANTS AND DEPUTIES ¥AY 23. HE ADDED LITTLf NEW CONCERNING·THE SUBSTANCE OF T4F CONVERSATION, BUT SAID ABRASIMOV'S PRINCIPAL MOTIVES SEEMFD TO BE TO SIZE UP BRANDT PERSONALLY AND TO GFT 
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PAGE TWO RUFHJA 11 ~ -S-E C-R···E-f ­ACROSS FORCEFULLY THE SOVIET CONCEPT OF STATUS QUO IN • EUROPE. F'POM HIS 0~1N POINT OF VI.EW, RRANDT SAID, IT WAS I~PORTANT TO USE EVERY OPPOQTUNITY TO PRESENT THE RERMAN STA~DPOlNT ON THE GERMAN PPO~LFM TO THE SOVIETS, EVEN IF NO IMMFDIATE RESULTS CAN RE FOPESEEN. 
2. ~rITH RESPECT TO FUTURE MEETINGS, RRANDT SAID ARRl\SIMOV•S INVITATION HAD REEN FOR A SOr,IAL GET­TOGFTHER WITH FAMILIES. IT WAS TACTFULLY PHRASED, Sl\ID RRANDT, TO MAKE GRACEFUL qEltECTION EASY. PRANf1T DECLINED. ARRASIMOV COM~ENTED THEY MIGHT WELL RE ~EETING CASUALLY IN ANY CASE AS AT THE SWFDISH NATIO~ftl DAY RECEPTION. RRANDT FXPECTS HE MAY QECEIVE ANOTHFP APPROACH FOR A PRIVATE ~EETING SO~ETIME IN THF. FUTUoE, PERHAPS AT THE END OF THE SUMMEP. 
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3. THE GOVERNING MAYOR ~FNTIONFD TH~T BACKLUNn H~n SEFN ABRASI~OV SINCE THE TALK AND THF SOVIET A~8ASS~Doo HAD ASKED IF BRANDT WERE SATISFIED AROUT THE REAOUrTION IN SONIC ROOMS CREF'TEL PAPA 6). , <THERE H_AD IN FACT BEEN ~ REDUCTION FOR A PERIOD, BUT ON MAY 23 THEY PICKFD 
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4. COM~ENT: JUDnING·FRO~ BRANDT'S ACCOUNT, HF PL~~s TO AWAIT A FURTHER MOVE RY ARQASIMOV. THIS M~Y OF COURSF NOT PE THE WHOLE STORY; 8ACKLUND'S FUPTHER MEETING VITH APRASIMOV MAY OR MAY NOT BE PELATED TO CONTINUING CONTACTS <BRANDT PROFESSED TO. KNOW NOTHI~A MORE THAN HE TOLD US ABOUT THIS MEETING). 
s. IT 1,rouLD SEEM THAT WE CAN NOW AWAIT FURTHF.R OVEoT DEVELOP~ENTS, ~EANWHILE KEEPING AN EYE OUT FOR EVIDFNrFS OF FOLLOW-UP CONTACTS, PERHAPS THROUGH BACKLUND, PFRH~P~ AT OTHER GERMAN-SOVIET LEVELS. 
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