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167. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance to President Carter

ntative around September 20. We agree with this timing. In order to obtain Security Council approval we have to work to achieve the strongest possible African backing in the United Nations. We will have to rely primarily on the Front Line states and Nigeria to ensure that the three Africans on the Security Council (Benin, Libya, and Mauritius) support the resolution we are proposing. Ambassador Young is now sounding out the Africans at the UN and is relatively confident that their support will be forthcoming. Planning The Next Steps At this point it appears likely that U.S. pressure on South A…

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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	1977-09-12
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XVI, Southern Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v16/d167
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Record ID	`frus:frus1977-80v16/d167`

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167. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance to President Carter. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1977-80v16/d167.