Diplomacy

We are proud that Iran is a friend of the United States, that the United States is a friend of Iran.

They will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations, and will be prepared to negotiate and settle differences by peaceful means.

In a ceremony in St. Vladimir Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace, the President and General Secretary Brezhnev signed the Basic Principles of Relations Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

As great powers, we shall sometimes be competitors, but we need never be enemies.

All will remember this splendid banquet, the delightful music, the new friendships that we have made with our Soviet friends.

We look forward to the time when we shall be able to welcome you in our country and in some way respond in an effective manner to the way in which you have received us so generously in your country.

They were greeted at Vnukovo II Airport by President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin, Foreign Minister Gromyko, and Ambassador Dobrynin.

I think you should know that while our talks have been necessarily brief and informal, it has been most helpful for me to get the benefit of your thinking on the problems of Europe, the problems of the world in which you are so well versed…

I bring with me the best wishes, the friendship of all the people of the United States for the people of these countries because we Americans feel friendship for the Austrian people, for the Russian people, for the people of Iran, and for…

We are going there for substance, very important substantive talks.

At that point I expressed a very dim view of summitry unless it was well planned in advance.

The United States stands ready to do its fair share in international efforts to achieve these aims, and expects that other nations will do the same.

However, when the enemy abandons all restraint, throws its whole army into battle in the territory of its neighbor, refuses to negotiate, we simply face a new situation.

You want peace. I want peace.

The big winner, because of this people-to-people contact that you are initiating between our two peoples, will be friendship between the people of the United States and the people of the People's Republic of China.

We will continue to give a special priority to our unique relationships with Latin America.

We have found a way to discuss our differences in a friendly way and without war, and this is the great lesson for all the world to see.

As far as these agreements are concerned, they are basically not an end in themselves.