IRE AT U.S. EXPECTED AT CONFERENCE

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• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: January 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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08 Ire at U.S.
expected at
conference
By Alfonso Chardy
ingim Washinsion Bureau
UNITED NATIONS - The Non-
Aligned Movement opens a five-day
conference Monday in Nicaragua to
examine crisis areas of Latin Ameri-
ca and the Caribbean and is expected
to denounce Reagan administration
policy as the source of hemispheric
troubles.
Sandinista commander Daniel Or-
tega, coordinator of the Nicaraguan
junta, will inaugurate the confer-
ence of foreign ministers, which is
sponsored by the movement's 34-na-
tion Coordinating Bureau but is open
to all 97 member states.
Nicaraguan diplomats at the Unit-
ed Nations said they expected delega-
tions from 70 to 80 countries but
discounted reports that Cuban Presi-
dent Fidel Castro, nominal head of
the Non-aligned Movement, might at-
tend the session. They said Ortega
was the only head of government
expected to attend.
One Latin American diplomat not-
ed, however, that "Fidel is unpredict-
able in these cases and may decide to
show up at the last minute."
The conference, to be attended by,
at least 14 foreign ministers, will lay
the groundwork for a summit of
heads of state from nonaligned na-
tions in New Delhi, India, later this
year.
U.S. criticized
Beyond the expected barrage of
anti-American speeches, a major task
of the conference in Managua will be.
to debate a 19-page document pre-
pared by the leftist government of
the host country.
The document, a copy of which was
made available to Knight-Ridder
Newspapers by Nicaraguan U.N. dip-
lomats, essentially constitutes a.
broad indictment of US. policy to-
ward the region.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
7 JANUARY 1983
Virtually every one of its 74 para-
graphs carries sharp criticism of U.S.-
programs, ranging from involve-
ment in Central America to the after-
math of the Falklands war, and from .
the debt crises in the region to Presi-
dent Reagan's Caribbean Basin
Initiative.
Other Latin American diplomats at
the United Nations said moderate
nations of Latin America, Africa and
the Middle East would attempt to
tone down the more militant pas-
sages and incorporate the U.S. view
that Nicaragua, Cuba, Grenada, the
Soviet Union and leftist guerrillas -
not Washington - are endangering
Latin focus,. ,
Jorge Cando, alternate Nicaraguan
ambassador to the United Nations' and one of the officials involved in
organizing the conference, said his
government would try to use the.
meeting to focus world attention on
Latin American problems, particu;
larly the Central American crisis,
which he said usually receives scant
attention at triennial nonaligned
summits.
"We believe that the time is right
to tell the international community
about the dangers in Central Ameri-
ca, and of all the major problems in
Latin America," Canda said.
"This way," he said, "the interna-
tional community and the non-
aligned countries will see that the
tensions in the region are a potential',
danger to international peace, and
that the U.S. is one of the major
contributors to the problems of our,
troubled region."
The draft, which is to become the
Declaration of Managua once it has
been'debated and adopted, says that
the-.'conference comes "at ?a time
when tension is rising in the Carib-
bean; the South Atlantic, and particu- .
larly in Central America; as a result
of the interventionist policy of the
United States in the region."
Alleged U.S. harassment
The document accuses the United
States of clandestine operations in
Central America to assist anti-Sandi-
nista counterrevolutionaries whose
strikes inside Nicaragua "have left a
toll of more than 400 dead, wounded
and kidnapped Nicaraguans since
1979."
It contends that the United States
harasses Nicaragua with spy planes,
the presence of warships and the
staging of combined military manu-
evers with the Honduran armed
forces..
Washington is "fomenting" war be-
tween Nicaragua and neighboring
Honduras, it says, by increasing its
military links with Honduras and
financing enlargement of Honduran
air bases, as well as by sending mili-
tary advisers to the region.
The paper accuses the United
States of "blocking" a settlement by
opposing peace initiatives from Mex-
ico and Venezuela and by ignoring
Nicaraguan offers of talks with the
United States and Honduras.
It also contends that U.S. political
and military involvement in El Sal-
vador is contributing to a "deteriora-
tion" of the situation in that country.
(United Press International report-
ed that the Nicaraguan foreign min-
ister, Miguel d'Escoto, said yesterday
in a Managua radio interview that
the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua,
Anthony Quainton, had reviewed
with him the Reagan administra-
tion's "worries" about the meeting.
[Barricada, the official newspaper
of the ruling Sandinista Front, said
the Reagan administration fears that
the nonaligned movement will de-
pict the United States as "a war-like
nation and aggressor against
Nicaragua."
[Managua's leftist regime has con-
tended the United States is backing
right-wing commandos based in Hon-
duras and staging almost daily raids
on Nicaraguan border towns, killing
numerous civilians and soldiers.]
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