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32. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance to President Carter

the Ogaden fighting continued. Phil made it abundantly clear that we were aware of the full extent of the Somali Government involvement in the Ogaden fighting. He urged the Somalis to pursue a peaceful solution through the OAU mediation effort which Nigeria is seeking to revive. He stressed that we were not and would not become involved on either side in the Ogaden. Addou said the US position would be fine if the USSR did the same, but instead they were arming Ethiopia to the teeth so that within six months Somalia, cut off from both Soviet and US arms, would be defeated and would have to acce…

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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	1977-10-20
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XVII, Part 1, Horn of Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v17p1/d32
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Record ID	`frus:frus1977-80v17p1/d32`

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32. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance to President Carter. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1977-80v17p1/d32.