ELYSEE PALACE; PRESSMEN; KISSINGER ENTERING AND LEAVING; KISSINGER TALKING TO PRESS AND DRIVING AWAY




Initials KM/V/BOB/SGM



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Background: PRESIDENT NIXON'S TOP FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER FLEW INTO PARIS TODAY (4 AUGUST) TO BRIEF PERSONALLY FRENCH PRESIDENT GEORGES POMPIDOU ON MR NIXON'S SEVEN-NATION TOUR. MR HENRY KISSINGER'S SERIES OF MEETINGS WITH MR POMPIDOU AND HIS LEADING MINISTERS UNDERLINE A NEW WARMTH IN FRANCO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

AFTER THE TALKS, MR KISSINGER TOLD REPORTERS THAT THE FRENCH PRESIDENT WOULD VISIT WASHINGTON EARLY NEXT YEAR. FRENCH OFFICIALS SAID THAT FOREIGN MINISTER M. MAURICE SCHUMANN WOULD GO TO THE U.S. NEXT MONTH TO PREPARE FOR M. POMPIDOU'S VISIT.

MR KISSINGER ALSO MET PRIME MINISTER JACQUES CHABAN-DALMAS DURING HIS 24-HOUR STAY IN PARIS. HE LEFT MONDAY NIGHT FOR BRUSSELS WHERE HE WILL GIVE A REPORT ON PRESIDENT NIXON'S TOUR TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION DELEGATES.