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FM Rabasa/Sec. Kissinger
March 13, 1974
12:50 pm
K: Emilio,
R: Hi, Henry, good morning.
K: How are you ?
R: I was thinking things over because I am SO concerned as to the success
of the Washington meeting and I more or less came to an idea. The
major anx of the international and local press has been favorable to the
Tlateloco meeting and I want to congratulate you on the instructions you
gave to Kubisch at the meeting in Quito. All the people there in Quito
mentioned the Tlateloco dialogue and the President of Venezuela who
just acame into power came in saying, or mentioned the Foreign Ministers'
meeting in Mexico. So now we have something positive in our hands and
we should do something to continue it. I have an idea but I wanted your
reaction before I go through with it. On the one part, this is the spirit
of Tlateloco and the other part, I think we have to come out with something
concrete because if not we are going to be criticised, especially now at
you because it is at your home and your backyard and then I learn that
Senator Mansfield said in the Senate and was reporting of the meeting in
Mexico that a new projection and a new idea should be given of Cuba.
That is how it came out in Mexican papers this morning. S O Henry,
thinking of you as my friend on the one hand and on the other, trying
to see what positive steps to make forward -- I don't want your people
to beat you to the punch back home. So I was thinking, but I want your
reaction on this -- give it a thought and then call me back if Mexico
proposed at the meeting in Washington that Cuba should be invited
at the next meeting of Foreign Ministers, not to the OAS, and at least
for you as President, which you will be at the Conference not to have
an
objection, just to be silent. Then I would go this weekend or next weekend
to speak to Fidel Castro and tell him that one of the things that has hurt
you more is that everytime we speak about you going into the OAS thatyou
start screaming and saying horrible things about the United States. This
comes out also because at one press 8 nference that I had lately, I said
that Mexico WXIS would always support the admittance of Cuba to the OAS
but that Mexico would not go hat in hand to ask Cuba because Castro always
comes back with nasty answers. Well, this divides public opinion -- some
applauded it, some didn't. I know that in Argentina, people were very happy
at me saying these things which was a little distorted but there was some
who were very happy. We are the first that have always had relations
with Cuba -- we still maintain the relations wi th Cuba and SO forth, but
we will not go hat in hand because everytime we speak about this thing
Cuba , Castro or somebody comes out and says we were
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