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• Case Number: F-2017-01987
• Publication Date: March 16, 1978

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THURSDAY 16 MARCH 1978
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 062 TCS 562/78
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Brazil -
West Germany
Results of Geisel's Visit
Brazilian President Geisel's five-day
trip to West Germany last week was a
success to the extent that nuclear
cooperation was reaffirmed and other
commercial ties strengthened. Not all
Brazilian expectations were met,
however. West Germany saw the visit in
strictly economic terms, while Brazil
gave it an overriding political
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The two governments, which already
have a nuclear accord under which Brazil
is to acquire nuclear technology and a full
nuclear fuel cycle, signed a new nuclear
agreement during the visit. It provides for
cooperation in the field of high
temperature reactors, gas-cooled fast-
breeder reactors, and the thorium fuel cy-
cle.
Geisel met with Chancellor Schmidt,
Foreign Minister Genscher, and other top
political leaders as well as the press. He
also delivered an address to businessmen
in Cologne. Geisel's hosts were impressed
with his self-confidence and expertise on a
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variety of matters.
It was apparent, however, that the
Brazilians took the visit more seriously
than did the West Germans, who
played down the event, according to the
US Embassy in Bonn. Press coverage, for
example, was far less extensive in West
Germany than in Brazil. The West Ger-
man media, moreover, tended to see the
visit in the context of US - West German
relations, particularly in light of the US
concern over nuclear proliferation.
The West German attitude must have
disappointed the Brazilians, who had (b)(3)
come to view the trip as the culmination
of a longstanding effort to build a foreign
policy conspicuously independent of the
US. The Brazilians envisaged the trip as
having a particularly strong impact on the
US in view of President Carter's coming
visit to Brazil. In recent years, West Ger-
many has emerged as Brazil's second
largest trading partner. (b)(3)
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