It is a policy not just for this year, but for the long term. If they cannot meet us halfway, we will be prepared to protect our interests and those of our friends and allies. But we want more than deterrence. We seek genuine cooperation. We seek progress for peace.
Cooperation begins with communication.
And, as I've said, we'll stay at the negotiating tables in Geneva and Vienna. Furthermore, Secretary Shultz will be meeting this week with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Stockholm. Our challenge is peaceful. It will bring out the best in us. It also calls for the best in the Soviet Union.