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186. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy

Our hope is that we can develop a resolution acceptable to us and the moderate Afro-Asians which would forestall the extreme resolution which the Soviets can be expected to introduce. We have received from the United Kingdom Delegation the text of a Nigerian draft resolution, moderate in tone and with a ten-year terminal target date for independence of African territories, which Nigerian Foreign Minister Wachuku hopes to introduce when the “United States Item” is considered. He also intends to request priority for the United States Item over the Soviet Item. The United Kingdom Delegation has r…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1961-10-18
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XXV, Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; Unite
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v25/d186
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v25/d186`

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186. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v25/d186.