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247. Memorandum of Conversation
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXVI, Energy Crisis, 1969–1974
, Portugal (December 17–18), Spain (December 18–19), France (December 19–20), and Switzerland (December 20–22). Mr. Kissinger : I don’t understand the $16/barrel? Mr. Levy : I think it was Coastal States perhaps; they bought the oil at that price in Nigeria. Mr. Kissinger : Is my…
2. Memorandum From the Acting Chairman of the Law of the Sea Task Force ( Brower ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–3, Documents on Global Issues, 1973–1976
tal jurisdiction was often expressed in terms of an economic zone or a patrimonial sea. Interestingly, the clustering of states favoring 12 miles may be having effects on the negotiating positions of states claiming broader territorial sea breadths. Nigeria, for example, stated t…
1. Memorandum From Fernando Rondon of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
t they did not result in the type of criticism that was to come in 1972 as a result of the Azores renewal—particularly the highly publicized aid package that accompanied it—and the Byrd Amendment on Rhodesian chrome. African critics, prominently the Nigerians, then accused the Un…
2. Research Study RAAS-1 Prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
rity of Ethiopians, but also of most of the inhabitants along the East African coast as far south as the Zambezi (see maps). In West Africa Moslems predominate in Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and Niger; and they are a large minority in Nigeria. Elsewhere in the regi…
3. Memorandum of Conversation
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
ons with African countries after the period of strain. Le Quesne added, without further explanation, that they were not going about being selective in a conscious or deliberate manner. It had developed that the greatest attention had been focused on Nigeria and Kenya. Getting on…
7. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Eliot ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
Africa’s natural resources. Africa has significant quantities of the world’s reserves of phosphate rock, copper, cobalt and other minerals. Africa’s iron ore reserves are twice those of the United States and two-thirds those of the USSR . Libya and Nigeria are among the top oil p…
8. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
has been amended to provide a special authorization of $30 million for rehabilitation in the Sahel. —International cooperation in the relief effort has been encouraging. In addition to the United States, important donors are France, Canada, Germany, Nigeria, the European Economic…
10. Telegram 6590 From the Embassy in Kenya to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
rey bill and its support among other key Senators, such as Javits. All aware that deadline of December 1974 will come very fast. 4. Labidi considering asking certain of AFDB Governors, who are also associated with IMF Committee of Twenty (Zambia and Nigeria were specifically cite…
11. Briefing Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Newsom ) to Secretary of State Kissinger
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
ng-term purchase contracts or joint ventures—the resources remain under the control of other sovereign powers increasingly assertive of sovereign rights. Africa is an important supplier or potential source of all the resources mentioned except zinc. Nigeria has replaced Venezuela…
60. Telegram 114225 From the Department of State to the Embassy in Ethiopia
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
62. Telegram 126711 From the Department of State to the Embassy in Burundi
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
63. Memorandum From Harold Horan of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
mic development in the area thus alleviating some of the economic and social stresses underlying the ethnic strife. President Mobutu ’s initiatives overshadowed the visits of Secretary General Ekangaki of the OAU and a mission representing President Gowon of Nigeria, present Pres…
70. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Newsom ) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs ( Springsteen )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
Portugal halfway across the African continent when it has not joined the Arab brothers in war on its own doorstep. The Africans have already vowed support for the liberation movement, but we have yet to see whether individual African states, each as Nigeria, have both the materia…
83. Memorandum of Conversation
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
s and they have a tendency not to follow through, as exemplified by unfulfilled Libyan promises of assistance to countries such as Uganda. In the hard assessment we make, we have to put all this in perspective. We judge, for instance, that Zaire and Nigeria will probably not brea…
91. Study Prepared by the Ad Hoc Inter-Departmental Regional Group for Africa
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
ntist pressures exist, Ethiopia’s alliance with Kenya, based otherwise almost solely on the Kenyatta - Haile Selassie friendship, seems secure. The Ethiopians probably consider the naming by the May, 1973 OAU Summit meeting of a committee chaired by Nigerian President Gowon to of…
200. Paper Prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
201. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Pickering ) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Scowcroft )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
202. Minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meeting
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
aff Meeting Source: National Archives, RG 59, Transcripts of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ’s Staff Meetings, 1973–1977, Entry 5177, Box 1, Secretary’s Staff Meetings. Secret. Newsom noted the failure to agree on a date and time for the Nixon - Gowon meeting and strongly sup…
203. Telegram 8309 From the Embassy in Nigeria to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
241. Intelligence Note RAAN–6 Prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
sive academic links with US Africanists and longstanding missionary ties, is more familiar to Americans than, say, French-speaking Burundi. A bloody internal upheaval or repression, therefore, might arouse attention and indignation in the US, as the Biafran issue did a few years…
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