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322. Memorandum From the Department of State Executive Secretary ( Read ) to the President’s Special Assistant ( Rostow )

Washington , June 25, 1966 . SUBJECT Cocoa Conference The Conference to negotiate a cocoa agreement recessed yesterday without reaching agreement. This outcome is a severe disappointment to the African cocoa producing countries, especially Ghana and Nigeria, which are heavily dependent on cocoa exports. The failure is being blamed on the United States. The criticism of our position includes charges that our position was determined by the negative attitude toward an agreement of the U.S. cocoa using industry. The United States Delegation took positions which proved to be at the farthest remove …

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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	1966-06-25
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IX, International Development and Economic Defense Policy; Com
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v09/d322
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Record ID	`frus:frus1964-68v09/d322`

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322. Memorandum From the Department of State Executive Secretary ( Read ) to the President’s Special Assistant ( Rostow ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1966. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1964-68v09/d322.