COSTA RICA EXPECTS SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA TO BE LIFTED SOON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-352-5-243-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 243
• Publication Date: August 11, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/08: LOC-HAK-352-5-243-6
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COSTA RICA EXPECTS SVjCTIONS AG4I!1ST CUBA TO BE LIFTED SOON
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AMBASSADORS MET WITH KISSINGER AND SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM OF THE NS ED
TO REVISE THE CUBAN CASE. IT IS A FAJ T THAT AT LEAST 17 OF
THE 21 NATIONS WHO HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE ON THE REVISION
OF THIS CASE FAVOR THE LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA.
NOT S0," FACIO SAID. "MAILLIARD MET WITH THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDE'A'E
AND MYSELF, BUT AT NO TIME WERE WE WILLING TO POSTPONE THE CUBAN
CASE INDEFINITELY, AS THE DISPATCH SEEMED TO IMPLY."
FACTO EMPHATICALLY DENIED MAILLIARD HAD MET COLO'TBIAN PRESIDENT
ALFONSO LOPEZ MICHELSEN. "MAILLIARD DOES NOT EVEN KNOW PRESIDENT
MICHELSEN, MUCH LESS CAN ANYONE SAY THEY ARE FRIENDS, AS SOME UsS6
NEWS AGENCIES CLAIMED."
OFFICIA' SOURCES TODAY REVEALED THAT TOLE LATIN AMERICAN
DISCUSSIO I OF THE CUBAN ISSUE U''T IL AFTER NEXT NOVEMBER. "THAT 10
AMBASSADOR TO THE OAS sIILLIAM M %RILLIARD, HAD SUCCEEDED IN POSTPPONIN
FACTO MEqTIO'NED A Nz.%'! REPORT FROM WASHINGTON CLAIMING THAT U.3.
DOCK, AS IT HAS BEEN ERRO'9EOUSLY INTERPRETED. ON THE CONTRARY, HE
ADDED, WE ARr TRYING T n PROCURE JUT? ICE IN A CASE THAT SHOULD BE
REVISED AND SETTLE!.
THE FOREIGN MI"ISTER SAID: WE ARE NOT PLACT4-! CJ9A 14 THE DEFENDAN
OR NO LONGER EXIST." COSTA RICA- cS WELL. w. MOST LATIN AMERICAN
NATIONS, HE CONTINUED, FEEL THA` -AE SANCTIONS SHOJLD BE LIFTED.
1.4 REfiUESTI"OG THE APPOINTME'IT OF A COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE MATTER,
CONDITIONS THAT BROUGHT ABOUT TH? SANCT104S AGAINST CUBA STILL PREVAIL.
(TEXT) SAM JOSE, Ci)STA RICA, 11 AGOG--COSTA RICAN FOREIGN
MINISTER GONZAL.O FACIO YESTERDAY TOLD THE PRESS THAT HE BELIEVED THE
SO-CALLED SA"1CTIO'!3 07 THE OAS AGAI"!ST CUBA WOULD BE LIFTED "VERY
SOON." FACTO SAID IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE OAS TO DECIDE "WHETHER
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/08: LOC-HAK-352-5-243-6
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