CONTENTS OF 29 AUGUST 1978 CONVERSATION BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL AND PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA - 1978/09/25

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06701363
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 25, 1978

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ARGENTINA/uNITED NATIONS
CONTENTS OF 29 AUGUST 1978 CONvERSATION UWE%
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL AND PRESIDENT OF
ARGENTINA
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1. DURING THE 29 AuGuST 1978 wEETING BETWEEN MAT
NALDHEINs DNITEC NATIONS WA./ SECRETARY GENERAL. AND JORGE
RAFAEL yIDELA. PRESIDENT OF ARGENT/fta, THE LATTER %AS THE FIRST
TO RAISE THE SUBJECT OF HJAAN 111.SNI'S dir sLylvG ToduiT HE AS SURE
NALDHEId ROULD NAN? TO CISCu3S THE u.%.'S CONCERI4S I% THIS AREA.
VIDELA THEN.GAvE AN AECIDAT OF AwAT HE DESCRIBED AS THE NAR AGAINST
TERRORISw AND SAID HE *A3 SURE THAT AALDHEIN. *HO HAD PERsokALLT
INTRODUCED AN ANTIwTERRORISH RESOLUTION IN THE U.N.. wHICH HAD BEEN
REJECTED. wOULD UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION THAT ARGENTINA HAD FACED.
2, THE SECRETARY GENERAL REPLIED THAT IT HAS UP TO THE
INDIVIDUAL STATES TO COwNor WITH U.N. RESOLUTIONS. AND THAT
014E HAD NO POWER *HATEVEA TO FORCE A STATE TO COHPLY. HE
qpiumE0 THAT HE RAS NOT AN OVERSEER OF muwAN RIGHTS AND THAT HE
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HAD NO SUCH MANDATE.; NE ADDED, MINIVER, THAT THERE WERE ACTIONS
HE COULD TAKE ON PURELY MORAL GROUNDS, AND IN THAT CONTEXT SAID
THAT ME MOULD LIKE TO PRESENT VIDELA WITH TWO LISTS OF PEOPLE
WHO HAD DISAPPEARED IN RECENT YEARS. HE OFFERED THE LISTS TO
PRESIDENT VIDELA, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, FOR WHATEVER ACTION VIDELA
MIGHT BE ABLE TO TAKE. VIDELA ACCEPTED THE LIST, AND THERE WAS
NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
3, THE SECRETARY GENERAL LEFT ARGENTINA A DAY EARLIER
THAN ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO RETURN TO NEW YORK
FOR AN IMPORTANT U.N. SESSION ON NAMIBIA,
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