Friday, 20 January 89 Washington, DC
1. THE FRAMEWORK OF A US-SOVIET SCIENTIFIC AGREEMENT FOR BASIC RESEARCH COOPERATION
was signed in Paris on 8 Jan 89 by Secretary
of State Shultz and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze. The agreement
sidesteps the sensitive issue of technology transfer by focusing
on areas of basic research in which Soviet science is strong. It
outlines 8 broad areas for cooperation: math, theoretical physics,
life sciences, chemistry, geoscience, fundamental engineering,
science policy and the arctic. The Paris framework agreement will
be supplemented by memoranda of understanding, which will further
detail the areas of research. The agreement also requires US
scientists to submit proposals for joint projects to a peer review
process. Negotiations on memoranda involving the NSF and the US
Geological Survey will begin soon. Assistant Secretary of State
Fred Bernthal, a former APS Congressional Fellow and former NRC
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