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June 1968	CPSU CC Decree, 'Regarding the Reception in the USSR of Ministers of Foreign Affairs Coming to Moscow to Sign the NPT' This decree by the CPSU CC describes how the Soviet government plans to welcome the ministers of foreign affairs coming to Moscow to sign the NPT. Many of these ministers hail from other Socialist states, while representatives from other nations are invited at the discretion of the Soviet MFA.
May 31, 1968	Note, Andrei Gromyko to CPSU CC, 'Regarding the Location of the NPT's Signing' This document is a communication to the Soviet UN delegation in New York, written by Vasily Vasilievich Kuznetsov, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1968	[First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs] Vasily Kuznetsov to the Soviet Delegation in New York This document is a communication to the Soviet UN delegation in New York, written by Vasily Vasilievich Kuznetsov, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes its contingency plan in case the US and UK refuse to sign the NPT in Geneva. This plan entails opening the treaty for signatures at the same time in Moscow, Washington, and London, using (presumably) the 1966 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies as a precedent for signing an agreement in three places at once.
1968	CPSU CC Decree, 'Regarding the Location of the NPT's Signing' A resolution from the CPSU CC about the location at which the NPT will be signed. The resolution approves the guidelines for Soviet delegates at the 22nd session of the United Nations General Assembly.
October 7, 1968	Directive Sent to Cde. I.D. Morokhov, Soviet Representative, Vienna Instructions and language from the Politburo to the Soviet representative about the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
September 5, 1968	Directives for the USSR Delegation to the XXIII Session of the General Assembly of the UN on the Issue of the Memorandum of the USSR Government on Some Urgent Measures to Halt the Arms Race and on Disarmament Directives for the USSR Delegation to the XXIII Session of the General Assembly about halting the arms race and on disarmament.
July 2, 1968	Statement for the Press on Signing the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in Moscow Statement made for the press about the signing of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in Moscow. The statement includes a list of people present at the Moscow signing.
July 2, 1968	Note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Embassies in Moscow Note to embassies in Moscow explaining the schedule for the signing of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons starting July 1, 1968
July 2, 1968	Speech upon Signing the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Speech expressing satisfaction for the Soviet Union signing of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
June 6, 1968	Directive Sent to Cde. V.V. Kuznetsov, Soviet Delegation, New York Suggested refinements to the draft of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.