Mao writes to Stalin of the ongoing armistice negotiations concerning Korea, specifically the proposed demarcation line (38th parallel). Mao also writes about monitoring, the exchange of prisoners of war, and economic considerations within China.
November 19, 1951
Ciphered Telegram, Special No. 1821 from Beijing
Ciphered Telegram
Copies: Stalin (2), Copy
From BEIJING 17:10 19/XI.1951
Special No. 1821
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SPECIAL
19 November at 18 hours Beijing time I was invited to visit Zhou Enlai, who asked me to transmit to Comrade Filippov the request of Mao Zedong to give an answer to the telegram of Mao Zedong to Comrade Filippov [Stalin] on the question of negotiations in Korea, which was transmitted to the Center on 14 November through Krasovsky.
Zhou Enlai acquainted me with the telegram and added that while awaiting the reply of Comrade Filippov the Chinese side had already twice declined to meet with American representatives in Korea.
ROSHCHIN, 19.XI.51
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Telegram from Roshchin to Moscow after meeting Zhou Enlai who asked him to request of Stalin an answer to Mao's earlier inquiry on the negotiations in Korea.
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APRF,f. 45, op. 1, d. 342, l. 22; AVP RF, f. 059a, op. 5a, d. 5, p. 11, l. 62; and RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 342, ll. 0022.
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