710 Consultation (3)A/489: Telegram
The Ambassador in Uruguay (Dawson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:05 p.m.]
1105. For Duggan from Spaeth. Reference your telegram No. 633, December 30.79 Committee has received unqualified acceptances from following countries: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, United States, Ecuador and Paraguay.
We are advised today by Serrato that Uruguay will reply favorably today or tomorrow.
Brazilian reply states in part as follows: “Your Excellency may be certain that the Brazilian Government will study it (recommendation) with the attention which the decisions of the Committee always merit. We have been and are advocates prior consultation among the [Page 39] American Governments whenever there are continental interests to be protected”.
Colombian reply states that Government is studying the recommendation and will inform the Committee of its decision shortly.
No answer has been received from Haiti, Nicaragua, Chile and El Salvador.
Committee has also received a telegram from Anze Matienzo, ex-Bolivian Foreign Minister now in Arica, offering to supply the Committee with secret information concerning the totalitarian aspects of the Bolivian Government. He requests a reply from Guani.
Yesterday afternoon Valdes Musters the Bolivian Minister acting pursuant to instructions from La Paz presented a strongly worded protest which accused the Committee of acting beyond its authority, of violating the international principles of juridical equality of states and the self-determination of people to decide their form of government, and of putting unjustified pressure on a weak country. The document also repeats previous statements made concerning adherence of the new Government to the principles of democracy and the cause of the United Nations. [Spaeth.]
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