TEXT OF TERM OF REFERENCE 1) a) part 2 TO AUGUST, 1986 REGISTERED LETTER SUBMISSION TO THEN-SOVIET GENERAL SECRETARY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV:

Diplomacy called key in speech to envoys

MOSCOW--Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is believed to have called for more dynamic and effective Soviet diplomacy in a major speech he delivered to an unusual gathering of Russian diplomats from around the world, western embassy analysts said Saturday.

"The message will have been: 'We must be seen to get our message across better, we must not be old fashioned," one envoy in Moscow said.

Gorbachev delivered the speech Friday at a meeting attended by Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and envoys summoned home from around the world. Diplomats said the meeting appeared to be unprecedented in recent years.

A report by the official news agency Tass described Gorbachev's speech as a major one, but did not quote from it. It said the meeting had "critically examined the recent experience of Soviet diplomacy."

Gorbachev probably spelled out the need to keep Soviet diplomacy free of cant and clichés and to make it more flexible and responsive to events, the embassy sources said.

Citing possible areas of concern, western diplomats said the Kremlin leadership would have taken stock of the critical foreign reaction, particularly in Western Europe, to the initial Russian silence on the Chernobyl nuclear accident.*

Diplomats said they detect concern among Soviet leaders that foreign opinion is not responding positively enough to initiatives, especially on arms control, which Gorbachev launched after he took power in March 1985.

(article accompanied by photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev, captioned:

(text of May 26, 1986 Vancouver Sun article)

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