SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 3, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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BIWEEKLY REPORT
SINO - SOVIET BLOC
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
EIC WGR 1/141
3 July 1961
PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
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Summary of Events
16-29 June 1961
In mid-,June the Soviet freighter Leninsky Komsomol arrived in Cuba
with a cargo that apparently included MIG fighter aircraft.
On 27 May the Brazilian commercial mission to Moscow signed two
protocols to the 1959 Brazilian-Soviet trade agreement. The new agree-
ments contain regulations defining the activities of the permanent trade
missions to be established in the respective capitals and also provide
easier credit terms for the sale of Soviet equipment in Brazil.
The USSR has offered economic assistance to Pakistan in return for
Pakistan's withdrawal from "anti-Soviet" pacts. This is the first occa-
sion in which political conditions have been publicly attached to Soviet
offers of aid to Pakistan.
In late May a shipment of Soviet arms arrived in Guinea. The ma-
teriel reportedly included five tanks, a number of amphibious vehicles,
artillery, and small arms.
Czechoslovakia has agreed to extend to Mali three credits totaling
nearly $12. 5 million to be used for building factories, purchasing air-
planes, and training Malian pilots.
About 20 Czechoslovak civil aviation technicians have arrived in
Mali to operate airfields presently manned by French military personnel
whose evacuation had been requested by Mali. Further negotiations be-
tween Mali and France are in progress, however, and the Czechoslovaks
are waiting until the situation is clarified.
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A Nigerian economic mission has now completed visits to Poland
and Communist China. Although it was not empowered to enter into any
economic agreements, the mission apparently laid the groundwork for
the subsequent negotiation of formal agreements with Bloc countries.
On 12 June Togo signed a general trade agreement with the USSR.
.Early in May, agreement was also reached between Togo and Poland
on the establishment of trade missions in both countries.
The Indonesian Government has announced that it will sent lOQ oil
technicians to foreign countries for training, and the USSR has appar-
ently offered to accept the entire group for training at Baku.
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I. Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A. Brazilian Economic Relations with the Bloc . . . 1
B. Soviet Deliveries of MIG Fighter Planes to Cuba . 3
II. Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Soviet Conditions on Further Aid to Pakistan . . . . . 3
III. Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A. New Soviet Arms Shipment to Guinea . . . . . . 4
B. Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Czechoslovak Credit of $12. 5 Million . . . . 5
2. Arrival of Czechoslovak Civil Aviation
Technicians 5
C. Arrival of Shipment of Soviet Arms in Morocco 6
D. New Developments in Nigerian-Bloc Relations 6
E. Economic Agreements Between Togo
and the Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Soviet Technical Assistance to Indonesian Petroleum
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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