NEARLY 600 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENTS OF 13 WEST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TODAY CRITICIZED U.S. POLICY ON NICARAGUA AND URGED CONGRESS NOT TO GRANT NEW FUNDS FOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) ACTIONS AGAINST THAT COUNTRY.

• Document Type: CREST
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• Publication Date: January 17, 1984
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THE HAGUE
CA\TRAL AMERICA - PARLIAMENTS
171 January 1984
Ngarly 600 members of the parliaments of 13 West European countries today
criticized U. . p on Nicaragua and urged Congress not to Grant new funds
fir Cen ra a gence Agency actions against that country.
.The call was made in a letter sent to House Speaker Thomas O'Neill and
circulated at a press conference by Dutch member of parliament Eveline Herfkens.
Herfkens heads the Amsterdam-based Committee of European Parliamentarans and
Politicians in Support of Nicaragua.
She said the signatories strongly disagreed with the U.S. policy of political
and economic isolation of Nicaragua and support of military actions against that
country.
. The letter called on Congress to support negotiated solutions to Central
American problems such as those proposed by the Contadora-group and the
Nicaraguan government, and to continue efforts to oppose new CIA funds against
N i car a o u
It also called for halting support of the forces attacking Nicaragua from its
border areas, assurance that Nicaragua would not be discriminated against by the
United States within international institutions like the World Bank, and
guarantees that Nicaragua was treated like other developing nations in aid and
trade.
The letter said Nicaragua's scheduled 1985 elections would offer the
Nicaraguan people a fair opportunity to determine their own future.
Among the signatories were members of parliament from West Germany, France,
Britain, Italy, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands.
They included British Social Democratic Party leader David Owen and Italian
Communist Party chief Enrico Berlinguer.
The letter is a follow-up to one sent to Congress last July in which 200
members of European parliaments expressed grave concern about U.S. acts of
economic, political and military hostility toward Nicaragua.
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