CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN PORTUGUESE GUINEA: MANY COUNTRIES HAVE RECOGNIZED THE NEW STATE OF GUINEA-BISSAU

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• Case Number: F-2018-01460
• Publication Date: September 29, 1973

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29 September 1973
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CONTENTS
EGYPT: Sadat attempts to patch up differences with
opponents in speech to nation. (Page 1)
USSR-INDIA: India has accepted Soviet "loan" of
2 million tons of food grain. (Page 4)
BRAZIL: President-designate Geisel expresses concern
over Medici's economic policies. (Page 5)
PORTUGUESE GUINEA: Many countries have recognized
the new "state" of Guinea-Bissau. (Page 6)
FOR THE RECORD: (Page 7)
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PORTUGUESE GUINEA: The anti-Portuguese rebels
have finally announced their long-planned declaration
of an independent state of "Guinea-Bissau."
Earlier this week, a "national popular assembly"
met inside the territory and proclaimed independence,
adopted a constitution, and announced the leadership
of their new government. According to a communique
issued by the rebels' African Party for the Independ-
ence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), Luiz Cabral
and Francisco Mendes, both major party figures, will
serve as chief of state and head of government respec-
tively. Aristides Pereira remains the head of the
party. The rebels claim that their headquarters and
capital will be located in a small town in southeast-
ern Portuguese Guinea.
The PAIGC intends this move to bring political
pressure on the Portuguese, who still exercise effec-
tive control over the important areas of Portuguese
Guinea. The PAIGC hopes that a formal presence in-
side the territory and the achievement of wide dip-
lomatic recognition will afford them an appearance
of legitimacy and enable them to gain increased for-
eign economic and military assistance.
A PAIGC spokesman told US officials in Conakry,
Guinea, that the new government is willing to talk
with the Portuguese. In the past, Portugal has re-
fused to talk with insurgents frofil any of it African
territories. Lisbon is not now likely to change that
policy and will continue to argue that the PAIGC does
not have the support of the people of Portuguese Guinea.
The rebel government has been recognized by Yugo-
slavia, Romania, and a number of Arab and African
states. Most other African and nonaligned nations
are expected to follow suit. The Soviet Union, long
a supporter of the PAIGC, has publicly welcomed the
independence declaration and will almost certainly
grant recognition now that some major African states
have taken the lead. Other international reaction
will become clearer when the Africans raise the ques-
tion of Guinea-Bissau's status at the UN.
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