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83. Memorandum From Acting Secretary of State Eagleburger to President Reagan1

Washington, April 8, 1982

[Omitted here is material unrelated to the situation in the South Atlantic.]

2. Falklands: Bill Middendorf succeeded in persuading the OAS to adjourn until Monday2 without substantive debate on an OAS good offices resolution proposed chiefly by Colombia.3 Meanwhile, I met separately with the French and German Ambassadors to discuss the Falklands situation. Each Ambassador indicated his nation’s solidarity with the UK, support for the Secretary’s efforts to defuse the crisis, and concern about the implications of a military clash.

[Omitted here is material unrelated to the situation in the South Atlantic.]

  1. Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC Agency File, Secretary Haig’s Evening Report (03/25/1982–04/21/1982). Secret.↩
  2. April 12.↩
  3. See footnote 2, Document 113.↩