No Change, U.S. Says

WASHINGTON, June 7—State Department officials said tonight that there had been no change in the United States interpretation of the rights and responsibilities of the four powers in all sectors of Berlin.

The officials said that the language of the Moscow communiqué describing the fourpower Berlin accord as an “agreement relating to the Western sectors of Berlin,” was not intended to “abrogate, undercut, or reinterpret” the Berlin agreement.

As a practical matter, the officials said, the improvements in access rights contained in the Berlin agreement affected mainly citizens living in West Berlin. But they pointed out that the Berlin agreement also defines four‐power responsibilities as extending throughout “the relevant area,” meaning the entire city, of Berlin.

One official conceded that misunderstandings might arise from the wording of the cornmunique, which he described a “hasty and perhaps a bit sloppy.” But he said that it should not be interpitted, by either the West German. Government or the East Germans, as implying a dissolution of four‐power responsibility for Berlin.