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96. Telegram 241525/Tosec 280012 From the Department of State to Secretary of State Kissinger in New York, September 29, 1976, 0039Z.1 2

New York, September 29, 1976, 0039Z

TELEGRAM
Department of State
241525/TOSEC 280012

O 290039Z SEP 76 ZFF4

FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO USDEL SECRETARY IMMEDIATE

STATE 241525
TOSEC 280012

STADIS
Exdis

E.O. 11652: GDS
TAGS: PFOR

SUBJECT: DAILY ACTIVITY REPORTS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1976

[Omitted here are topics unrelated to politicization of international organizations]

SOUTH AFRICA AT IAEA

BOTH THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING ENDED TODAY -- AND WE SUCCESSFULLY WEATHERED THE THREATENED EXPULSION OR SUSPENSION OF SOUTH AFRICA. IN A PACKAGE DEAL PROMOTED BY THE CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN (CARVALHO OF BRAZIL), THE AFRICANS, IN RETURN FOR A RECORD CONDEMNATION OF APARTHEID PLUS A CONFERENCE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS TO REVIEW ITS ANNUAL DESIGNATION OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS, REFRAINED FROM A CHALLENGE TO SOUTH AFRICA’S CREDENTIALS -- BOTH AT THE CONFERENCE AND AT THE SHORT BOARD MEETING WHICH FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY AFTER. SOUTH AFRICA’S STATUS AS MEMBER OF AGENCY AND OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED AT LEAST UNTIL JUNE 1977.

[Omitted here are topics unrelated to politicization of international organizations]

ROBINSON

  1. Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy Files. Confidential; Exdis. Drafted by Bodine and approved by Steiner. This section of the report was authored by Toussaint. Kissinger was in New York to deliver an address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 30.↩
  2. As part of the daily activity report, Toussaint informed Kissinger that efforts to expel or suspend the Republic of South Africa from participation in the International Atomic Energy Agency were defeated.↩