CHINESE COMMUNIST SUGGESTION THAT CHILE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE NORTH VIETNAM AND NORTH KOREA DURING

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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2019
• Case Number: F-2017-01655
• Publication Date: February 12, 1972

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COUNTRY: CHILE/NORTH VIETNAM/NORTH KOREA/CHINA
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SUBJECT: CHINESE COMMUNIST SUGGEST ION THAT CHILE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE 0
NORTH VIETNAM AND NORTH KOREA DURING PRESIDENT NIXON'S
VISIT TO CHINA
Dm' 12 FEBRUARY 1972
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ACQ: CHILE SANTIAGO (12 FEBRUARY 1972)
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1. PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLENDE AND THE CHILEAN FOREIGN
MINISTRY HAVE RECEIVED A CABLE FROM RODR IGO AMBR OS I 00 SECRETAR1
GENERAL OF THE UNITED POPULAR ACT ION MOVEMENT (NAND WHO IS NOW ON A
VISIT TO COMMUNIST CHINA, STATING THAT THE MOST OPPORTUNE TIME FOR
CHILE TO GRANT OFFICIAL RECOGNITION TO NORTH VIETNAM AND NORTH KOREA
-11E-LUCLUDED IN ANY OTHER
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CHINA IN LATE FEBRUARY 1972.
THE COMPONENTS OF THE POPULAR
BE DURING THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON TO COMMUNIST
COMMENT: THE MAPU IS ONE OF (b)(1)
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UNT IY (U.P.) COALITION GOVERNMENT.)
�AMBROSIO ADVISED IN HIS CABLE, WHICH WAS RELAYED FROM PEKING VIA
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, THAT HIGH-LEVEL CHINESE COMMUNIST OFFICIALS
HAD MADE THIS PROPOSAL TO HIM.
COMMENT: HE DID NOT NAME (b)(1)
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ANY OF THESE OFFICIALS.) ACCORDING TO AMBROSIO, THE PERIOD
COINCIDING WITH PRESIDENT NIXON'S VISIT WOULD BE PROPITIOUS BECAUSE
"THE UNITED STATES COULD NOT RESPOND" IN HIS ABSENCE AND THE CHINESE
COMMUNISTS COULD SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS WITH PRESIDENT NIXON.
2. COMMENT: A COPY OF �AMBROSIO' S MESSAGE WAS FORWARDI(b)(1)
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TO FOREIGN MINISTER CLODOMIRO AL ME YD A, WHILE HE WAS IN PAR IS
RENEGOTIATING THE CHILEAN FOREIGN DEBT, BUT AL MEYDA DID NOT REPLY
TO IT. IT IS QUESTIONABLE THAT ALLENDE WILL RECOGNIZE EITHER
COUNTRY IN VIEW OF HIS DESIRE NOT TO JEOPARDIZE THE DEBT RENEGOT IA-
T IONS IN ANY WAY.)
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4. (b)(3)
COMMENT: THE NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY ANNOUNCED ON 6 FEBRUAk)
1972 THAT ON THE EVENING OF 6 FEBRUARY, PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI AND OTHER CHINESE(b)(3)
OFFICIALS MET AND HAD A CORDIAL AND FRIENDLY CONVERSATION WITH AMBROSIO AND
CARLOS ALBERTO PORTABLES,MEMBER OF MAPU'S INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF'THE
NATIONAL DIRECTION.)
NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTMDLLED DISSEM/NO DISSE/M ABROAD/THIS INFORMATION IS NOT TO
BE INCLUDED IN ANY OTHIIIDOCUMENT OR PUBLICATION.
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