INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-5-48-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: March 14, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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*tics pER0 WOULD SUPPLY HALF OF THE CREWS FULL PORT SERVICES,
AND THE FISHING GROUNDS, WHILE' THE SOVIETS WOULD PROVIDE
SNIPS AND THE REST OP THE CREWS. MOST OF THE CATCH WOULD
?at SOLI .DN THE WORLD mARRET AND THE PROCEEDS SPLIT BETWEEN
? BoT* couNTRIEs? PERU ALREADY HAS JOINT FIBMING VENTURES
NIT)* Foote) AND CuSA, MOSCOW HAS LONG SOUGHT FISHING RIGHTS
OFF, THF? PERUVIAN COAST TO SUPPLEMENT ITS CATCH', SOVIET U.
FORTS, HOWEVER, HAVE BEEN 14/ 46EREO BY THE 200,,MILE toNE
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By PERU, THE SOVIETS HAVE UNDERTAKEN ONLY LIMITED
FISHING AND RESEARCH IN THESE WATERS, THE JOTNT vENTURE MAY
? SECONE THE BEST SOLUTION POSSIRLE FoR THF USSR AND OTHER HAJ
FISHING STATES HoPING TO FISH COASTAL WATERS IF THE 24000m/LE
ECONOMIC ZONE IS APPROVED BY THE LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE,
TRINIDAD SEERS To JOIN OPEC; TRINIDAO HA3 AGAIN APPLIED FOR
FULL; mEmpERsHIP TN THE OPEC, TRINIDAD'S FIRST APPLICATION IN
1072 WAS REJECTED, PROBABLY BECAUSE IT WAS THEN ONLY A MINOR
PRODUCER, SINCE THEN ITs PRODUCTION HAS RISEN To AT LEAST
2000 POP BARRELS PER DAY, ABOUT THE SAME AS ECUADOR, AN OPEC
MEMBER', IN ADDITION, IN 197e TRINIDAD WAS LARGELY A REFINERY
CENTER FOR TEXACO ANM SHELL. THE GOVERNMENT HAS SINCE BOUGHT
ALL; DP SHELL'S PRODUCING, OEF/NING, AND MARKETING OPERATIONS
IN TRINIDAD AND HAS ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL 0/Li COMPANY To
OPERATE 'THE FORMER SHELL PROPERTIES, PRIME Af/NISTER, WILLI*
? Is OPT/MISTIC THAT THIS TIME HE CAN GAIN ENTRANCE INTO OPEC,
THE INYELOGENCE,COMMUNIII BELIEVES THIS AMBITION MAY HAVE
SEEN ONE MOTIVE FOR HIS srOP IN INDONESIA DURING HIS RECENT
TRIP To THE FAR EAST, IT COULD ALSO EXPLAIN HIS EXPRESSION
OF CONCERN ABOUT THE EFFECT OF. THE NEW U,S, TRADE ACT ON OPEC!
P?lEoisERs,
IRAN? OIL.' CONCESSIONS IN GREENLAND; /RAN WILL SIGN AN AGREE
MENT WITH DENMARK NEXT MONTH FOR DTI, CONCESSIONS TN GREEN*
LAND cove TEHRAN'S F/RsT SUCH VENTURE ABROAD, THE NATIONAL
IRANIAN OIL COMPANY, CHEVRON, ANDA PRIVATE NORWEGIAN OIL
COMPANY WILL EXPLORE WHAT SOME GEOLOGIsT, RELIEVE COULD Be
THE wowL0's NEXT MAJOR OIL.PPRODUCING AREA, THE AGREEMENT
REFLECTS THE SmAH's INTEREST IN DEVELOP/No New SOURCES OF
OIL AGAINST THE DAY THAT IRAN'S LIMITED RESERVES BEGIN TO
RUN OUT AND HIS DESIRE TO MAKE MAXIMUM USE OF HIS LARGE
REVENUES',
SINGAPORE mINIST RI CHINA VISIT! SINGAPORE HAS TAKEN A MA
STEP, TOWARD A mDRE, SALANCE0 FOREIGN POLICY WITH THE VISIT TO
PEKING 7,04/3 WEEK OF AN OFFIC/AL DELEGATION HEADED By FOREIGN
,MINISTER' RAJARATNAM, THE FOREIGN MINISTER INDICATED THAT HIS
GOVERNMENT WILL HOLD OFF ,FOR NOW ON FORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELA0
TIONS WITH. PEKING, SO THAT IT IS READY FOR INCREASED TRADE
RELATIONS, TN HIs DEPARTURE SPEECH, RAJARATNAH REPEATED THE
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? PIT , EERS OF THE, ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS TO
EsTAILISH DIPLOMATIC TIES 'KITH PEKING, ONLY MALAYSIA HAS SO
FAS TAKEN THE STEP,r, SINGApoRt SELIEVEs TRE OTHERS 41.14, THAILAND,
frNE polT6ippiNg$, AND IND0f4esTA pm WILL NOT MoVE FOR ANOTHER
TKO, vgARS, RAJARATNAPOS VISIT 13 AN ImFoRTANt FIRST STITP0
SINSAFDRE'S WIL?INGNESS to MAINTAIN THE mOMENTUM 23 REFLECTED
rtf? RAJARATNANIs STATEMENT THAT HE WOULD INVITE:. HIS clAIINEsE
tousTERPART YO VISIT SINGAPORE THE CHINESE ARE CERtAIN to
SC PLEASED ev THE FORE101,4 HIN/STERIs REAFFINHATIoN THAT THE
sINsiposf govERNmENT REsArtOS ',TAIWAN As PART OF CHINA ANO
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