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273. Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon

supporter of UN peacekeeping and African Unity. He was a founder of the OAU . Both the OAU and the UN Economic Commission for Africa have head-quarters in Addis. You will recall the Emperor has made several—albeit unsuccessful—efforts to mediate the Nigerian civil war on behalf of the OAU . US-Ethiopian Relations From the early fifties, the Emperor has managed a skillful balancing act between de jure “non-alignment” respected throughout the Third World and a de facto special relationship with the U.S. We have been the heaviest contributor to their economic development, a primary market for the…

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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	1969-07-06
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969–1972
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve05p1/d273
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve05p1/d273`

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273. Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve05p1/d273.