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58. Minutes of a Special Coordination Committee Meeting
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as hostile and other Africans are unenthusiastic. We should instead focus on the OAU . Secretary Vance said this should be the case up to a point, but added there is nothing promising in the OAU effort either. We should wait and see what happens in Lagos. In telegram 2181 from La…
60. Memorandum From Secretary of State Vance to President Carter
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te that he was going to do so in conjunction with requesting arms. Addou replied indirectly that the arms request was without reference to a Somali withdrawal. Addou said a senior Minister and the Somali Ambassador to the U.S. had been dispatched to Lagos to request that Obasanjo…
61. Paper Prepared in the Department of Defense
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unequivocally by the OAU (Somalia is the only dissenting nation)—with our less vigorous support for the right of self-determination under the UN Charter, is the solution sought by the United States, first in its backing of the OAU initiative led by Nigeria, and more recently, the…
63. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter
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n February 23, 1978, you approved the following measures: See Document 62 . Next Diplomatic Steps The United States will temporarily defer pressing our U.N. Security Council resolution on the Horn, See footnote 4, Document 58 . while encouraging the Nigerians to undertake a diplo…
64. Presidential Directive/ NSC –32
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U.S. policy towards the Horn of Africa, the President has directed the following: See Documents 62 and 63 . 1. Diplomatic Steps The United States will temporarily defer pressing our U.N. Security Council resolution on the Horn, while encouraging the Nigerians to undertake a diplo…
65. Record of a Special Coordination Committee Meeting
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are very few Black Africans who are going to support Siad ’s position. The best we can hope for is something along the lines of our four points and we have to work on how we can get the Black Africans to go along with us. ZB : Have we heard from the Nigerians? CV : They are tryin…
66. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter
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aden to prevent retribution as the Ethiopians return; C. Soviet-Cuban withdrawal; D. No further arming of Somalia. The above is likely to be appealing to some African countries and we already have obtained the support of Kenya. We are now working on Nigeria. The above will requir…
69. Telegram From the Embassy in Ethiopia to the Department of State
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am From the Embassy in Ethiopia to the Department of State Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, D780100–0814. Confidential; Priority. Sent for information to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bonn, Cairo, Djibouti, Jidda, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lagos, Mogadiscio, Moscow, Nai…
72. Telegram From the Embassy in Somalia to the Department of State
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tment of State Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, D780106–0570. Confidential; Flash; Niact Immediate; Priority. Sent for information Niact Immediate to Addis Ababa, USUN , and Nairobi; sent Priority to Cairo, Jidda, Sana, Lagos, London, Paris, Rome, Bo…
73. Summary of Conclusions of a Special Coordination Committee Meeting
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derived from them. • Everyone agreed that we should encourage the OAU to take initiative in respect to ceasefire arrangements, observers, measures to protect the civil population and related matters and that we should stay in close contact with the Nigerians and Gabonese. In resp…
327. Intelligence Assessment
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the South African situation, there is a risk that no matter what steps Washington takes in support of change, none will fully satisfy the demands of politically conscious South African blacks (and their principal allies in black Africa, such as the Nigerians) short of giving the…
335. Telegram From the Department of State to Multiple Diplomatic Posts
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technical data destined to or for use by S.A. police or military; See Document 324 . C. S.A. share of U.S. trade with Africa has fallen from 31.5 percent in 1965 to 12.7 percent in 1976 (with the shift largely attributable to increased purchases of Nigerian oil); U.S. exports to…
336. Letter From President Carter to South African Prime Minister Vorster
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e than in coming to grips with the prospects of increasing violence. I have asked Ambassador Young to urge the leaders of the Front Line states to influence the Patriotic Front to participate in such a meeting. I shall make the same point to General Obasanjo when I visit Lagos. I…
344. Memorandum From the Ambassador at Large ( Smith ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski )
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o clarify [ less than 1 line not declassified ] questions that have been raised. We will advise key Congressmen confidentially and generally of our progress on this case, and are advising the French, the British, the Germans (and in less detail) the Nigerians and the Soviets. I a…
6. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State and the White House
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sult is that we get considerable influence as a result of our policies toward development, health, food and agriculture, investment and technical assistance but jeopardize it all because of our equivocation on the essential African issues. 5. In the Nigeria-Biafra situation See F…
12. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State and the White House
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egram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State and the White House Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, D780220–0088. Confidential; Immediate; Exdis. Sent for information to Dar es Salaam, Gaborone, Lagos, Lusaka, Maputo, Pretori…
13. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State
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des of conduct to deal with the problem of ethnic minorities—the most explosive political problem in the continent because of the irrationality of colonial borders. There are some foundation stones on which to build. At the last General Assembly the Nigerians proposed the creatio…
14. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter
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ks we should impress on our African friends the urgent and critical need to strengthen their own regional machinery in order to avoid exacerbating East-West rivalry in Africa. West Africa: The West African posts’ responses are in telegrams 7552 from Lagos, June 19; 4411 from Monr…
16. Paper Prepared in the Department of State
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ntervention. At the July OAU Summit, the Chiefs of State, while reaffirming OAU opposition to foreign intervention in the internal affairs of African states, reiterated traditional OAU approval of appeals by sovereign states for outside help. Still, Nigerian President Obasanjo ,…
33. Memorandum of Conversation
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itive. The meeting took place at the State House Marina. According to the President’s Daily Diary, the meeting took place in the conference room and ended at 12:20 p.m. (Carter Library, Presidential Materials, President’s Daily Diary) Carter visited Lagos March 31–April 3, the fi…
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