Edward L. Rowny
As I mentioned earlier, I spent most of my time writing a book on my negotiating
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experience. I also gave lectures around the country and attended various seminars
and working groups sponsored by the Wilson Center.
Q:
To go back a bit, what did you do while you were out of government and at the
Wilson Center?
Yes. Let me first address where we negotiated. In SALT I, the negotiations
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rotated among three capitals: Geneva, Vienna, and Helsinki. However, it became
such a logistic headache that the two sides settled on one meeting place: Geneva.
And in SALT II and START we continued to meet in Geneva.
As for the negotiating teams, we were roughly parallel. During SALT II the
Soviets had a chief and six negotiators on their side and we had a chief and five on
our side. As military representative to SALT II, I had two three-star Soviet
generals opposite me. I thought this was unfair. While one Soviet general was
Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the U.S. representative to START,
Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, Geneva, 3 February 1983.
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