Office of the Historian

1. Memorandum From Secretary of State Haig to President Reagan1

Washington, January 21, 1981

1. My Meeting With Warren Christopher: I met with Warren Christopher when he returned today and congratulated him on the completion of a very difficult negotiation.2 He praised the Algerians for their role and suggested that we have a special opportunity to develop further this relationship. We agreed that we should wait a decent interval after this agreement before new arms shipments (OV10 aircraft) or sales of new items (M–60 tanks) to Morocco. I have this question under study. On the agreement, I assured him that, while we wished to study it and learn more of its implications, we recognized it generally as a binding obligation.

[Omitted here is material unrelated to North Africa.]

  1. Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC Agency File, Secretary Haig’s Evening Report (06/06/1981–07/02/1981). Secret.↩
  2. Reference is to Christopher’s role in negotiating the Algiers Accords. See footnote 3, Document 97. No memorandum of the Haig-Christopher conversation was found.↩