SOVIET AND CUBAN DISAPPOINTMENT IN RESULTS OF 3-6 MAY 1984 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NICARAGUA IN LISBON

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• Case Number: F-2019-00445
• Publication Date: June 5, 1984

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COUNTRY: NICARAGUA/USSR/CUBA/SPAIN/PORTUGAL/INTERNATIONAL
SURJ: SOVIET AND CUBAN DISAPPOINTMENT IN RESULTS OF 3-6 MAY 19F4
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NICARAGUA IN LISBON
DOI: LATE MAY 1984
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SUMMARY:- SOVIET AND CUBAN OFFICIALS OF THE WORLD PEACE COUNCIL
(WPC) ARE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE ON
NICARAGUA WHICH WAS HELD 3-6 MAY 1984 IN LISBON AND WAS SPONSORED
BY THE WPC AND OTHER SOVIET FRONT ORGANIZATIONS. THE.DISAPPOINTIVG
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RESULTS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PERSONAL INTERVFA-tION OF PORTUGESE
PRIME MINISTER SOARES AND SPANISH PRIME MINISTER GONZALES WHO .
SUCCESSFULLY DISCOURAGED PARTICIPATION ON THE GROUNDS
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THE
CONFERENCE WAS SOVIET-INSPIRED... WPC PRESIDENT CHANDRA WAS ALSO
MIFFED AT NOT HAVING BEEN GIVEN A MORE PROMINENT ROLE AT THE
CONFERENCE AND COMPLAINED THAT EFFORTS ON THE PART IF ORGANIZERS TO
DOwNPLAY WPC INVOLVEMENT HAD GONE "TOO FAR". CHANDRA HAS ORDERED AN
-INTENSE CAMPAIGN OF SOLIDARITY" WITH THE SANDINISTAS FOR JUNE ANfl
JULY 1974.
TEXT: I. SOVIET AND CUBAN OFFICIALS OF THE SOVIET-
DOMINATED WORLD PEACE COUNCIL HAVE, PRIVATELY,
EXPRESSED CONSIDERABLE DISAPPOINTMENT OVER WHAT THEY REGARD
AS THE "LOW LEVEL" OF REPRESENTATION AT THE 3-S MAY 1974
"INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NICARAGUA AND FOR PEACE IN
CENTRAL AMERICA" WHICH. WAS HELD IN LISBON AND WAS SPONSORED
BY THE WPC TOGETHER WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER SOVIET-FRONT
ORGANIZATIONS. THE WPC OFFICIALS DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTED
THE DISAPPOINTING TURNOUT To THE PERSONAL INTERVENTION OF
PORTUGUESE PRIME MINISTER MARIO AND SPANISH PRIME
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%1INIGTER FELIPE (GoZ4LEs)), D TH_oF ugol RE RFLIEVED Dy THE
1.'PC OFFICIALS T HAVE '!RITTEr LT-Tk-TO vi. '� . THE ORGANIZATIONS
AND PERSONALITIES INVITED WHICH POINTED oUT THE SOVIET-FRONT
SPONSORSHIP OF THE CONFERENCE AND DISCOURAGED
PARTICIPATION fli IT. ROTH SoARES An GOrZALES ARE SAID
To HAVE ACTED IN THEIR
INTERNATIONAL (SI).
HEpoRT ON PREPARATIONS FOR
CAPACITY AS OFFICIALS OF THE. SOCIALIsT
COMMENT: FOR A PREVIOUS
THE LISBON CONFERENCE, SEE
FOR A REPORT ON EFFORTS BY GONZALES
TO DISCOURAGE PARTICIPATION, SEE
2. ALTHOUGH THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS HAD PLANNEC FOR
PARTICIPATION OF 400-500 PERSONS, THE ACTUAL NUM9FR
.ATTENDING 7:145 ONLY 330. ACCORDING TO mPC OFFICIALS, MANY
OF THE ORGANIZATIONS INVITED DID PARTICIPATE IN THE
CONFERENCE, BUT REDUCE:0 THE SIZE OF THEIR DELEGATIONS ANC
THE LEVEL OF OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION. THE FOLLOIANG
ORGANIZATIONS WERE REPRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE:
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AFRO-ASIAN PEOPLE7_S .S.OLIDARI 1? oRWIZATIOr;
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LL-ARAD PEOPLE' S CONGRESS;
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__ONTI NENTAL �IcilEte S FRONT AGAINST INTERVENTION If LATIN AlF.P.ICA;
commissior OF THE CHURCHES ON I NTERNA.TION AL AFFAIRS OF THE
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i, . WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES;
I NTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS;
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION AGAINST TORTURE;
INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL;
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS;
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH AND STUDENT MOVEMENT FOR THE UNITED FATIOF,S;
ORGANIZATION OF SOLID...L-41TV OF THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA, .4C14, ANI)
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LATIN _AMERICA;
WINE N' S INTERNATIONAL DEMOC.RATIc...F,E,DE,RATI,ON;
WOMEN' S I NTERNAT IONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND
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,1VORLD FEDERATION OF DEloCRATIC YOUTH;
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lifORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTIFIC ',YORKERS;
, WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS;
WORLD -PEACE COUNCIL;
WORLD STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION;
FREEDOM;
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF TEACHER' S UNIONS;
tLATI N AMERICA CONTINENTAL STUDENTS' OP.GANI ZATION;
.1,/ I NTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF JOURNALISTS:
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CHRISTIAN Pf...,,,iE CoNFERENCE; i
ASIAN BUDDH IS T CONFERENCE _For PEACE;
rOhLD FEDERATION OF UNITED NATIDU ASSOCI ATIOt'F;
AX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL ( OBS ERV7R TAMS)
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