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160. Paper Prepared in the Department of State
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ar will stabilize and strengthen. This loss of purchasing power and the stagnant demand for OPEC oil has had a direct adverse effect on the ability of OPEC members to finance growing public expenditures. For members such as Venezuela, Indonesia, and Nigeria, immediate revenue nee…
165. Telegram From the Department of State to Selected Diplomatic Posts
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780431–0447. Confidential; Immediate. Drafted by Moore and Hart; cleared by Bosworth , Rosen , Katz , Solomon , Bergold , and in NEA/RA and EUR/RPE ; and approved by Cooper . Sent to Jidda, Kuwait, Tripoli, Abu Dhabi, Algiers, Doha, Tehran, Caracas, Lagos, Jakarta, Libreville, Qu…
166. Paper Prepared in the Department of State
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g-term contracts. If the strike continues, within a month or so pressures in spot markets would spread to the premiums charged among oil companies for the crude they sell to one another. At the same time, some OPEC members, including Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, and Venezuela would b…
170. Paper Prepared by the National Security Council Staff
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velopment which can make a significant contribution to world oil supply and exert a restraining force on oil prices. Within a decade, Mexico will be at the forefront of the world’s oil nations, producing at a level double the projected production of Nigeria, Kuwait and Libya and…
178. Telegram From the Department of State to Selected Diplomatic Posts
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D780539–0146. Confidential. Drafted by James C. Todd ( EB/ORF/FSE ); cleared by Rosen , Bosworth , Katz , Twinam , Solomon , and in NEA/RA ; and approved by Cooper . Sent to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Algiers, Baghdad, Caracas, Doha, Jakarta, Jidda, Kuwait, Lagos, Libreville, Quito, Tehr…
62. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter
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neglect, and fearful about the consequences of the emphasis being placed by Washington on the U.S.-Brazilian relationship. We had failed to come to grips with the Panama problem. • The Africans were openly hostile to our policies, to the point that Nigeria even cancelled an offic…
69. Address by the Deputy Secretary of State ( Christopher )
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continent that the condition of large numbers of people—of individual, identifiable human beings—is less oppressive now than it seemed one year ago. Africa. There have been releases of substantial numbers of political detainees; for example, Sudan, Nigeria, Upper Volta, Mali, and…
74. Article by the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ( Maynes )
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ter ’s recent overseas tours to developing countries is another good example of our lingering tension between national bias and international reality. Presumable reference is to the President’s trips to Venezuela March 28–29, Brazil March 29–31, and Nigeria and Liberia March 31–A…
78. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to the Cabinet
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volvement. Responding to changes over the past 15 to 20 years in the global distribution of power, we are seeking to broaden these patterns of cooperation. This means developing new and wider relationships with such regionally influential nations as Nigeria, Indonesia, India, Sau…
90. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter
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hone calls). 2. To weave a worldwide web of bilateral, political, and economic cooperation with the new emerging regional powers, thereby extending our earlier reliance on Atlanticism to include such newly influential countries as Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, I…
93. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter
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ispatch periodically Cy, me, Andy, and others—to talk to the principal leaders with whom we are trying to maintain or develop closer relations: this would be flattering even to Giscard, or Schmidt , or Fukuda —and certainly to the Shah, or Fahd , or Obasanjo, or Desai ; and it wo…
94. Minutes of a National Security Council Meeting
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ct. Documentation on the January 1978 return of the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1977–1980, vol. XX, Eastern Europe . We have good relations with Romania. The President: I think our relation with Nigeria is a notable achieveme…
107. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance to President Carter
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a-Chile (perhaps drawing in Peru and Bolivia). B. Possible Instability: Turkey; Post- Tito Yugoslavia; Iran; China; Egypt; Poland; El Salvador; Saudi Arabia; Pakistan; Zambia; Romania; Sudan; the Philippines; and countries moving to democracy, e.g., Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Boli…
105. Action Memorandum From the Director of the Policy Planning Staff ( Lake ) to Secretary of State Vance
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ch of Africa, like much of Latin America, promotion of human rights is our chief interest. Since a number of African leaders either have good human rights records (Gambia, Senegal, Liberia) or are working actively to improve them (Rwanda, the Sudan, Nigeria, Upper Volta), our hum…
125. Telegram From the Mission in Geneva to the Department of State
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orial Guinea either to respond meaningfully to the complaints against it under the confidential procedures or be confronted with a public debate at next year’s session. Solid African pressure (Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Rwanda, and especially Senegal and Nigeria) pushed through these…
139. Report Prepared by the Interagency Group on Human Rights and Foreign Assistance
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considerable contro versy within the institutions, including accusations that the U.S. is politicizing them. Korea and the Philippines have considered sponsoring a “motion of regret” in the ADB Board over U.S. human rights initiatives in that bank. Nigeria and India have question…
149. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State, the Embassy in Austria, and the Embassy in Cameroon
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the United Nations to the Department of State, the Embassy in Austria, and the Embassy in Cameroon Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, D780263–0040. Limited Official Use. Repeated for information to the Mission in Geneva, Lagos, and New Delhi. New York…
172. Memorandum From the Special Assistant to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Inderfurth ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski )
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ement. The human rights situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated since the April 1978 military coup. —Over the past year human rights practices in some African countries have improved, including Benin, Djibouti, Ghana, Guinea , and the Ivory Coast. Nigeria has welcomed the U.S.…
245. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for International Health Issues ( Bourne ) to President Carter
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on of global agricultural research. The four major research centers included the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Mexico), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Nigeria), and the Internationa…
308. Report by the NSC Ad Hoc Group on Population Policy
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ly 1970’s. About four-fifths of the developing country population lives in the 13 most populous countries, i.e., those whose 1975 population exceeded 35 million. This includes, in order of size: China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Vietnam, the…
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