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318. Paper Prepared in the National Security Council
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy
mic summit in Canada Scheduled to take place June 19–21. — debt strategy — budget/deficit reduction/process reform — monetary policy An unknown hand placed a brace in the left-hand margin, bracketing the May and June points and wrote: “we could make Babangida ‘fit’ either of thes…
274. Telegram From the Embassy in Morocco to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXIV, North Africa
e MPLA is ready to talk to UNITA but not Savimbi . 5. Hassan denied any efforts to arrange talks between the MPLA and the South African Government and also replied negatively when I asked if he had been in touch with other key African players, e.g., Nigeria, Mozambique, Cape Verd…
242. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs ( Mulford ) to Secretary of the Treasury Baker
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that government creditors have sanctioned write-offs of principal on commercial loans in the context of a multilateral forum. There are considerable risks of contamination to other debtors, even if only beginning with other African countries such as Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire. We…
245. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs ( Mulford ) to Acting Secretary of the Treasury McPherson
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rthiness. Applying the Paris Club options to non-African Bolivia would make it difficult to argue that “blend-country” Pakistan should not receive such treatment when its per capita income ($350) is less than Senegal ($510) or even Liberia ($440). [ Nigeria ($370) will pose a sep…
252. Paper Prepared in the Department of State
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tries that have not rescheduled commercial debt have increasing difficulty in borrowing. In a sense, commercial bank creditors have abandoned any pretense of a case-by-case approach, and now rate all middle-income Latin debtors (and the Philippines, Nigeria and perhaps Indonesia)…
400. Action Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs ( McAllister ) to the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs ( Wallis )
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ctober 1985 and the organization’s decline and impending dissolution, now expected to take place on June 30, 1989. In July 1986, anticipating the demise of the ITC, the Association of Tin Producing Countries (Australia, Bolivia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand and Zaire) p…
105. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLI, Global Issues II
ota, Bonn, Brasilia, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Colombo, Dakar, Dublin, Islamabad, Lome, London, Manila, Oslo, Paris, Rome, San José, Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Dhaka, Kigali, Lima, Sofia, Gaborone, Lisbon, Madrid, Lagos, Moscow, Baghdad, and Po…
11. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Carlucci ) to Secretary of State Shultz
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume VI, Soviet Union, October 1986–January 1989
e Soviets have conveyed a similar message via Duane Andreas Chief Executive Officer of Archer Daniels Midland. and Richard Nixon. (TS) Immediately following your departure for Africa, From January 8 to 14 Shultz traveled to Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Li…
388. Telegram From the Embassy in Bulgaria to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume X, Eastern Europe
s in specific terrorist incidents. Mladenov ordered an immediate investigation and also discussed the issue with Chairman Zhivkov. — It was true that Bulgaria manufactures and sells weapons, grenades and rifles. The list of purchasers includes Iraq, Nigeria, Libya and the PLO . I…
233. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs ( Mulford ) to Secretary of the Treasury Baker
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their margin for maneuver and which could give rise to unilateral actions to limit debt service. Such actions by these two major debtors would necessarily set the tone for other debtor countries. Both these nations and the Philippines, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ecuador are expect…
35. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee, Central Intelligence Agency, [ name not declassified ] to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence ( Gates )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLI, Global Issues II
. West Africa Topic 4.9.1 Epidemiological Aspects Topic 4.9.2 Sociopolitical Impact Benin [ 1 column not declassified ] [ 1 column not declassified ] Burkina Cape Verde Chad Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone T…
358. Telegram From the United States USUN Environmental Mission to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLI, Global Issues II
ent; and trade. (Note: US Del believes U.S. efforts prior to session with UNEP organizers to ensure such a sharp focus, including use of working groups, proved very influential.) 4. Attendance appears somewhat larger than Geneva session, with Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and Philippi…
362. Telegram From the Department of State to Multiple Diplomatic Posts
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLI, Global Issues II
OAA , Interior, Energy, USTR , L/OES , Commerce, and NASA . Sent priority to all OECD capitals, Algiers, Bangkok, Bogota, Brasilia, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Caracas, Dakar, USUN Geneva, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lilongwe, Lima, Manila,…
195. Memorandum From the Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters ( Nitze ) to Secretary of State Shultz
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLIV, Part 1, National Security Policy, 1985–1988
to block any solution to the problem. This is one of the issues which we need to discuss when you return. Shultz departed the United States on January 6 to visit Bermuda (January 6–7), Dakar (January 8–9), Douala (January 9), Nairobi (January 9–12), Lagos (January 12), Abidjan (J…
275. Address by Secretary of State Shultz
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy
nalysis, new currents of thought and innovation, new developments across the range of human knowledge. Today, over 340,000 young men and women from overseas are studying in the United States—just to take a few numbers: 21,000 Malaysians; 18,000 from Nigeria; 6,000 from the United…
279. Briefing Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Crocker ) to Secretary of State Shultz
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy
Zaire, Liberia) sustained by adequate levels of military, economic aid Continued burden sharing with France to contain Qadhafi Sustained military and economic aid to threatened states (e.g. Chad, Somalia, Sudan) Cultivate emerging regional power in Nigeria IV. Meeting Africa’s ba…
19. Telegram From the Department of State to All African Diplomatic Posts
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLI, Global Issues II
US and Western Europe are unsafe and contaminated, and C) that the citation of Africa as the disease’s point of origin is some sort of Western conspiracy. 2. (U) These charges were recently aired in a letter to the editor dated May 30 and sent from Lagos under the signature of Gb…
356. Telegram From the Embassy in France to Multiple Recipients
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLI, Global Issues II
ipients Source: Reagan Library, Robert Johnson Files, Stratospheric Ozone—#4. Unclassified. Sent Priority to the Department of State. Sent to the White House, the OECD collective, Beijing, Brasilia, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Dakar, Kuwait City, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City, Mo…
179. Minutes of an Interagency Group–International Economic Policy on International Debt Meeting
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hed a watershed in the evolution of the debt problem with all the major debtors having made progress toward adjustment or at least having committed themselves to the IMF programs that would have that effect if implemented properly. The exception was Nigeria. The problem with majo…
186. Briefing Memorandum From the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs ( Constable ) to Secretary of State Shultz
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ndon the focus on economic adjustment. Treasury’s paper cites “growing resistance” to adjustment—yet over the past year many previously recalcitrant debtors have in fact begun to come around. Looking outside Latin America, we have the spectacle of a Nigerian coup replacing a corr…
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