Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-29
DeGau|Ie Won't Sign
Moscow Attest Ban
Also Rejects
Pact Against
Aggression

FAHlS, July ~ (AP)!-FreSl"
dent Charles de Gaulle today
snubbed the Moscow agreement
for a limited nuclear test ban
and coldly rejected the idea Of
a nonaggression pact between
NATO and the Warsaw pact
nations.
At the same time, he declared
that French-United States re-
lations are too tightly en-
bedded in historical friendship
and alliances to be deeply dis
turbed by present differences
in policy.
Gen. de Gaulle spoke to a
jampacked news conference in
an ornate reception room at
the Elysee Palace. About 800
reporters, cabinet members,
deputies and government of
ficials sat on gilded chairs for
an hour and a quarter.
This was his first news con-
ference since January, when he
vetoed Britain's entry into the
Common Market and spurned
an American offer of Polaris
missiles as the price of joining
a NATO atomic force.
Gen. de Gaulle said that the
Moscow agreement initiated by
the United States, Great Brit
ain and Russia to halt test
ing Of nuclear weapons above
ground and in the sea had
really changed nothing. Under
these conditions, he said.
France could not be expected
to halt its own tests aimed at
making it a full-fledged men,
Der of the atomic club.
But, he added, France is still
interested in disarmament. He
said that he has some ideas
for ways of controlling cos
mic, aerial and sea-borns de-
livery systems and planned to
invite interested countries" to
a disarmament conference be-
fore the end of the year. He
did not spell out who would be
invited, but implied that the
atomic powers-Great Britain,
the United States, Russia and
France-should attend.
Pledges No Aggression
Gen. de Gaulle commented:
To-day, France solemnly de-
clared through the voice of the
President of the Republic that
there will never be any agrees
sion by France. Our partici-
patton in a pact of nonaggres-
sion is hence without purpose"
Addressing a crowded news
conference, Gen. de Gaulle
said France will call for a
general conference on disarm-
ament before the end Of this
year.
He declared that France will
halt its own nuclear program
only if the United States and
the Soviet Union agree to de-
Stroy their nuclear stockpiles.
He said the disarmament
conference should consider the
destruction of stockpiles and
the destruction of vehicles
such as missiles and rockets
for delivering nuclear bombs.
Follows Policy
This is in line with long
established French policy-that
France would resign from the
nuclear club only If the club
itself is disbanded.
Gen. de Gaulle said that
while the Moscow agreement
might be considered a good
thing as a starting point, it
still left the world in danger.
1T has not lifted the atomic
menance which weighs on the
world" he said. None Of the
signers has renowned the use
of atomic weapons and hence
the position of the world has not
been changed in any way"
Gen. de Gaulle said France.
which is just on the verge of
having its own complete nuclear
arsenal, cannot halt its efforts
now.
The president said France
would propose methods for con-
trolling cosmic. aerial and sea
delivery systems involved in
nuclear armament to the dis
armament conference 1t intends
TO suggest.
He did not seem too opti-
mistic about tbs, however. He
noted that the sad conference"
on disarmament in Geneva had
been struggling with this ques-
ton for months without success.
Gen. de Gaulle noted that the
Moscow agreement does not
prevent the three major nu-
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