VISIT OF PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARSHALL WITH CHILEAN OFFICIALS CONCERNING BEAGLE CHANNEL LOS AND NUCLEAR COOPERATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 5, 1981
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: VISIT OF PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARSHALL
WITH CHILEAN OFFICIALS CONCERNING BEAGLE CHANNEL, LOS AND
VUCLE_AR COOPERATION
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3e SUMMARY. PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARSHALL
ACCOMPANIED BY EMBASSY OFFICIALS MET WITH UNDERSECRETARY OF
t'H CSI GN MINISTRY ERNESTO VIDELA, 4F~ T , R~L ANDO
!E GGERS,, AND SEVERAL OTHER GOC OFFICIALS ON NOVEMBER 1 TO
)ISCUSS A RANGE OF LOS AND NULCEAR COOPERATION TOPICS. THE
4EETING WITH VIDELA WAS AT HIS REOUEST.AND WAS CONFINED TO A
)ISCUSSION OF THE BEAGLE CHANNEL DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
AND SUMMARY.
I. MARSHALL ACCOMPANIED BY POL COUNSELOR DURKEE MET KITH
JIDELA AND ZEGERS FOR ABOUT 90 MINUTES TO DISCUSS THE STATLS
)F THE BEAGLE CHANNEL WITH VIDELA ITEMIZING THE tVENTS LEADING,
JP TO THE POPE'S PROPOSAL AND EMPHASIZED THE NUMEROUS
)PPORTUNITIES THAT ARGENTINA HAD TO FULLY STATE ITS CASE.
/IDELA REITERATED RECENT EVENTS WHERE ARGENTINE OFFICIALS HERE
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CONTINUING TO SEEK AN AVOIDANCE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
VATICAN'S DECISION. VIDELA POINTED To FAILURE OF ARGENTINA TO
COMPLY WITH ACCEPTABLE LEGAL STANDARDS AND OBSERVED THAT
ARGENTINA HAS NEVER BEEN REPROACHED by THE WORLD COMMUNITY FOR
IGNOR:ING THE EARLIER ARBITRAL AWARD MADE UNDER PROCEDURES
ACCEPTED BY BOTH COUNTRIES. VIDELA AND ZEGERS CONCLUDED BY
SUGGESTING THAT THE POPE MIGHT' NEED THE DISCREET HELP OF
NATIONS SUCH AS THE US AND BRAZIL AS WELL AS THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY EMPHASIZING THAT THE POPE'S PRESTIGE MAY BE
JEOPARDIZED BY CONTINUED EFFORTS BY ARGENTINA TO AVOID THE
INEVITABLE.
be DIRECTOR GENERAL ZEGERS HOSTED A LUNCHEON ATTENDED BY
AMBASSADOR LANDAU, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARSHALL,'POL
COUNSELOR DURKEE AND ECON COUNSELOR WHITNEY. THE LUNCHEON MAS
ALSO ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF WFA OFFICES AMC) HAVE
RESPONS1BILITY FOP NUCLEAR AND LOS MATTERS. THEY INCLUDED;
OCTAVIO ERRAZURIZ. DIRECTOR FOR BILATERAL AFFAIRS; LUIS
WINTER, DIRECTOR FOR MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS; LT COLONEL
HUMBERTO JULIO, DIRECTOR FOR PLANNING; EDUARDO BRAVO, DIRECTOR
FOR SPECIAL, POLITICAL AFFAIRS; AND JORGE BUSTOS, DEPUTY
DIRECTOR FOR SPECIAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS. VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE
LUNCHEON WAS DEVOTED TO A DISCUSSION OF
THE US-LOS POSITION. MARSHALL NOTED THAT THE PRESIDENT IS
MOST LIKELY TO BE PRESENTED WITH TWO OPTIONSeeEITHEP
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE NEGOTIATIONS, OR FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS TO
SEEK :IMPROVEMENT IN THE SEABED MINING PROVISIONS WHICH MEET
OUR NaTIONAL OBJECTIVES. IF THIS OPTION IS CHOSEN, WE WILL BE
SEEKING SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES IN THE DEEP SEABED PART. ZEGERS
RESPONDED THAT THEY CERTAINLY HOPEU,THE PRESIDENT WOULD NOT
SELEC'' THE OPTION TO WITHDRAW. (ZEGERS IS THE CHILEAN
DELEGATION LEADER FOR THE LOS NEGOTIATIONS AND APPEARS TO HAVE
A PERSONAL INTEREST IN'CONCLUDING A LOS AGREEMENT.) MARSHALL
NOTED THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE GIVEN A COMPLETELY BALANCED
OPTIONS PAPER AND THAT EVERY EFFORT WOULD BE TAKEN TO AVOID
PREJUDICING THE OUTCOME OF THIS DECISION MAKING. ZEGERS HOPED
THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD DECIDE TO CONTINUE THE NEGOTIATIONS
AND THAT ZEGERS WOULD MEET WITH AMBASSADOR MALONE SOMETIME
BEFORE: THE NEXT INTERsSESSIONAL MEETING. MARSHALL NOTED THAT
WE OF COURSE WOULD WANT TO MEET WITH ZEGERS IF WE WERE TO
PURSUE: THE NEGOTIATIONS. HIS SUPPORT MOULD BE VERY
IMPORTANT. DURING THE DISCUSSION, ZEGERS MENTIONED SEVERAL
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TIMES HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE US NEED FOR GUARANTEED ACCESS
TO THE SEABEDS, HE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED PROBLEMS THE US
=ACED--THE SYSTEM OF VOTING AND THE NEED TO PROTECT EXISTING
SEABEC MINERS, ON A TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ISSUL9 ZEGERS SEEMED
?ECEPTIVE TO US CONCERNS REGARDING MANDATORY ASPECTS AND OUR
PROBLEMS WITH THIRD PARTY INTERESTS.
59 FOLLOWING THE LUNCHEON, THE TWO SIDES SPOKE PRIMARILY
ABOUT THE PROPOSAL FOR ADDITIONAL NUCLEAR COOPERATION, THE
TOPIC HAD BEEN MENTIONED BRIEFLY DURING THE LUNCHEON,
MARSHALL NOTED THAT WE WOULD NEED TO CONCLUDE A NEW SUPPLY
4RRANGEMENT WITH CHILE IN,ORDER TO PROVIDE FUEL FOR THE
CHILEAN RESEARCH REACTORS. ALSO, AMBASSADOR
LANDAU AND DEPUTY
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARSHALL POINTED OUT THAT THERE OAS A
CLEAR PREFERENCE OF THE US TO HAVE CHILE BECOME A PARTY TO THE
TREATY OF TLATELOLCO (I.E.v WAIVE THE ENTRY INTO FORCE
PROVISION) AND THAT IN RECENT YEARS THE US HAD CONCLUDED NEW
AGREEMENTS UNLY WITH NATIONS WHICH WERE TLATELOLCO OR NPT
PARTIES. ZEGEPS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT CHILE
COULD BECOME A PA.RT____Q_.TLAJ_E ULC_O.__' . _-.THAT THERE WAS CONCERN
wITF ARGENTINEPLANS. IT BECAME APPARENT FROM THE
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PR VIOUSLY THAT ZEGERS AND
c7THER S HAD A VIEW OF AR NA?S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
CAPABILITY THAT I S UNREALISTIC. ZE5~TALKEU jN
T OF ARGENTINA HAYING THE CAPAt)ILITY TO SUDDENLY BUILD A
NUCLEARR t~EAPON. A DISCUSSION E~vSUED REGARDING THE ARGENTINE NUCLEAR
ENERGY PROGA`M AND THE DIRECTION IN WHICH IT WAS GOING.
ZEGERS EXPRESSED GREAT INTEREST IN THE DETAILS OF THIS PROGRAM.,
7. ZEGEPS ASKED IF HE COULD HAVE A COPY OF A DRAFT AGREEMENT
FUR COOPERATION AND MARSHALL PROVIDED HIM WITH A DRAFT WHICH
ASSUMES THAT CHILE BECOMES A PARTY To THE TREATY-OF
TLATELOLCO. MARSHALL PROCEEDED TO DESCRIBE THE AGREEMENT
ARTICLE BY ARTICLE NOTING THAT THE SAFEGUARDS ARTICLE (ARTICLE
9) WOULD HAVE TO BE MODIFIED IF THE AGREEMENT WERE TO BE
CONCLUDED WITHOUT CHILE BEING A TLATELOLCO PARTY. THIS WOULD
dEDUIRE ADDITIONAL ASSURANCES AND MODIFICATIONS OF EXISTING
SAFEGUARD AGREEMENTS TO ENSURE THAT ALL NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES IN
CHILE WERE FULLY SUBJECT TO IAEA SAFEGUARDS.
8. FOLLOwUP REQUESTED: GOC OFFICIALS DESIRE FURTHER
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INFORMATION ON kERTR ASSISTANCE AND COPIES OF THE US NUCLEAR
COOPERATION AGWEEMENTS WITH EL;YPT, PERU AND COLUMBIA,
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