FONMIN WAGNER DISCUSSES HABIB VISIT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R000401950028-6
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 1, 1986
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. (C) SUMMARY: PERUVIAN FONMIN WAGNER DISCUSSED
APRIL 25 AMBASSADOR HABIB VISIT WITH LOCAL PRESS.
HE NOTED U.S. CONCERNS THAT CONTADORA TREATY BE
COMPREHENSIVE, VERIFIABLE, AND SIMULTANEOUS, AND U.S.
POLICY TO SUPPORT A TREATY THAT CENTRAL AMERICAN
DEMOCRACIES ACCEPTED. WAGNER SAID HE AND GARCIA
HAD SUGGESTED TO AMBASSADOR HABIB THAT USG RATIFY
LATTER'S RECENT LETTER ON CONTADORA "AT HIGHEST LEVEL"'
THAT IT RENOUNCE "DIRECT AGFRESSION" AGAINST NICARAGUA;
AND RESPECT FORMALLY REGIONAL TREATY ONCE SIGNED.
FONMIN NOTED DISAGREEMENT ON U.S. AID TO THE CONTRAS,
WHICH GARCIA FOUND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND AT LIMITS
OF WHAT LATINS COULD TOLERATE; DIRECT U.S. INTERVENTION
WOULD BE "INTCLERABLE." HE CALLED FOR CONFIDENCE-
BUILDING MEASURES PRIOR TO SIGNATURE OF TREATY.
WAGNER'S REMARKS TRACK WITH REPORT ON WHAT HE AND GARCIA
TOLD AMBASSADOR HABIB. GOP APPEARS HEADED READ" TO
PLAN AN UNHELPFUL ROLE ON CONFIDENCE-BUILDING MEASURES
AND PRINCIPLE OF COMPREHENSIVENESS AND SIMULTANEITY.
2. (U) IN AN APRIL 28 PRESS INTERVIEW. PERUVIAN
FOREIGN MINISTER ALLAN WAGNER SPOKE AT LENGTH ON
AMBASSADOR HABIB'S APRIL 25 VISIT HERE, AND-ADDRESSED
AREAS OF DIFFERENCE WITH THE U.S. OVER CENTRAL AMERICA.
WAGNER NOTED AT THE OUTSET THE U.S.' PRINCIPAL
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CDNCERNS AEOUT A REGIONAL DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION: IT
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HE SAID -HERE WERE TWO IMPASSES IN THE CONTADCRA PROCESS
THAT AMBASSADOR HABIB DISCUSSED WITH WAGNER AND THE
PRESIDENT. ARMS LIMITATIONS AND MILITARY MANEUVERS
IN THE REGION. THE LATTER POINT, HE SAID, INCLUDED
THE SOVIET AND CUBAN PRESENCE IN NICARAGUA, AS WELL
AS THE "MASSIVE" U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE
REGION, AS WELL AS U.S. SUPPORT FOR THE NICARAGUAN
RESISTANCE.
3. (U) WAGNER REMARKED THAT AMBASSADOR HABIB HAD
STATED THAT THE U.S. WOULD SUPPORT WHATEVER DIPLOMATIC
SOLUTION THAT THE FOUR CENTRAL AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES
CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE. THE U.S. WOULD NOT BLOCK
SUCH AN AGREEMENT AND WOULD FOLLOW UP BY CEASING
SUPPORT FOR THE CONTRAS. ACCORDING TO THE TREATY,
WAGNER SAID, THE U.S. WOULD BEGIN TO WITHDRAW TROOPS
FROM HONDURAS. AT THE SAME TIME, NICARAGUA WOULD
REDUCE ITS MILITARY BUILD-UP AS WELL AS THE CUBAN
AND SOVIET ADVISERS. THERE WOULD ALSO BE PROCESSES
OF "INTERNAL RECONCILIATION IN THOSE COUNTRIES WHERE
SOCIETY IS DEEPLY DIVIDED, AS IS THE CASE IN NICARAGUA
AND EL SALVADOR."
4. (U) CONTADORA WAS NOW TRYING TO FINISH NEGOTIA-
TIONS ON THE TEXT OF THE TREATY BY JUNE 6, SAID WAGNER.
"ONCE THIS POLITICAL AGREEMENT IS REACHED, IT WILL
RESULT IN AN EXPRESSION OF GOOD-WILL THAT WILL PERMIT
IMMEDIATELY THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF OTHER
CONFIDENCE-BUILDING CONDITIONS, REMOVING THE ELEMENTS
THAT DISTURB RELATIONS, WHICH WILL LEAD THEREAFTER TO
THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY, ITS RATIFICATION, AND
EXECUTION."
5. (U) ASKED ON WHAT POINT WAGNER AND GARCIA DIFFERED
WITH AMBASSADOR HABIB, WAGNER RESPONDED THAT THE
LATTER HAD SAID THAT U.S. AID TO THE NICARAGUAN
RESISTANCE SHOULD CONTINUE AS LONG AS CONTADORA ACTA
WAS UNSIGNED. WAGNER STATED THAT THIS WAS A POINT
OF DISCREPANCY; PERU BELIEVED THAT SUCH AID ONLY
AUGMENTED THE WAR PSYCHOLOGY IN NICARAGUA, AND
POINTED NICARAGUA AWAY FROM DEMOCRACY.
6. (U) WAGNER THEN NOTED THREE SUGGESTONS HE AND
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- A) THAT THE AMBASSADOR'S RECENT LETTER TO THREE
U.S. CONGRESSMEN ON CONTADORA BE RATIFIED AT "THE
HIGHEST LEVEL" IN THE USG. WAGNER CONTRASTED THE
LETTER WITH THE "AGGRESSIVE RHETORIC" COMING FROM
OTHER USG SOURCES;
- B) THAT THE U.S. RENOUNCE "DIRECT AGGRESSION"
AGAINST NICARAGUA;
- C) ONCE THE CONTADORA ACTA IS SIGNED, THAT THE
U.S. AGREE FORMALLY TO RESPECT THE TREATY.
7. (U) PRESIDENT GARCIA TOLD AMBASSADOR HABIB THAT
U.S. AID TO THE CONTRAS WAS THE LIMIT OF WHAT LATINS
COULD TOLERATE, SAID WAGNER. ALLUDING TO HIS PREVIOUS
THREAT TO BREAK RELATIONS IF THE U.S. INVADED NICARAGUA,
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GARCIA SAID A DIRECT INTERVENTION BY THE U.S. WOULD
BE INTOLERABLE; THAT STAGE OF U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN
RELATIONS WAS HISTORY. WAGNER SAID AMBASSADOR HABIB
AGREED AND SAID THAT U.S. PUBLIC OPINION WAS AGAINST
DIRECT U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN NICARAGUA. FURTHER-
MORE, THE U.S. HAD NO INTENTION OF INVADING NICARAGUA,
UNLESS A SITUATION DEVELOPED THERE THAT WOULD BECOME
A GRAVE THREAT TO AMERICAN SECURITY.
8. (C) COMMENT: WAGNER'S STATEMENTS COINCIDE WITH
THE THRUST OF CONVERSATIONS THAT HE AND PRESIDENT
GARCIA HAD WITH AMBASSADOR HABIB (REFTEL). THE GOP
RECEIVED OUR MESSAGE ON COMPREHENSIVENESS, SIMULTANEITY,
AND VERIFICATON, BUT NEVERTHELESS APPEARS READY TO
PUSH "CONFIDENCE BUILDING" MEASURES IN AN EFFORT TO
BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO REGIONAL NEGOTIATIONS, AS WELL
AS LEAVE THE GOP IMPRINT ON CONTADORA. ALTHOUGH HE
PAID LIP SERVICE TO THE NEED FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
IN NICARAGUA, WAGNER MADE CLEAR HE SAW THE NICARAGUAN
RESISTANCE ONLY AS A FORM OF MILITARY PRESSURE.
FINALLY, W:,GNER REITERATED PREVIOUS GOP MARKER ON
DIRECT U.S. INTERVENTION, UNDERSCORING THAT GOP HAD
NOT RETREATED ON THIS ISSUE.
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