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7. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Eliot ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )

Africa’s natural resources. Africa has significant quantities of the world’s reserves of phosphate rock, copper, cobalt and other minerals. Africa’s iron ore reserves are twice those of the United States and two-thirds those of the USSR . Libya and Nigeria are among the top oil producing countries of the world. Algeria produces great quantities of natural gas. Access to these resources is important to the United States and to other friendly powers. With the spread of industrialization, these resources will become increasingly critical. The Commission can help to generate greater American aware…

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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	1973-07-19
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve06/d7
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve06/d7`

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7. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Eliot ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1973. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve06/d7.