SANCTIONS COMPROMISE ON CUBA IS EXPECTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130074-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: July 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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~?~~.y ud?~, armed force if Cuba continued
Since husk did not specify fits efforts at subversion, many
the nature of the unctions
the U.S. wanted, neither side observers c o n c l u d e?i+I . that
could complain ? about his Washington 'was seeking sanc-
speech. .Venezuelan Foreign Lions weaker at this time than
114inister 'Ignacio ` Iribarren those advocated by Venezuela.
Borges said after the talk that trade Moves Urged
he viewed it as supporting the Further coptc`ibuting to this
tough Venezuelan posit.ion? belief .was air appeal by Rusk
But other oUscrvers consid-,
-The Intcr?American Confer.
i' ence of Foreign Ministcr~ re-
malned deadlocked ,yesterday
over the question of sanctions
against Cuba but indications
:mounted .that a compromise
was in the making
Secretary of State ,Dean
Rusk offered the .strongest
hint of such a development in
`a speech h'e delivered to the
he~i~isphcre ,Foreign Ministers
' in the 1'an American Union
{,building. ~ '
~. Rusk vigorously requested
that sanctions be applied
.against Cuba for trying to sub-
vert the governments of Latin
:'America, in particular Ven?
'ezucla. That country .called
for Lire present conference ppn?
`der the provisions of the Inikri
American .Treaty. of Recipro?
cal Assistance (Rio Treaty) af?!
j to Cuba tried to foment the
eyed, the. speech ,conciliatory
to Mexico and. Chile because
of its vagueness: .
Sympathy for Venezuela
Rusk made clear- the, depth
of U.S, sympathy. for '.the.
Venezuelan cause. "Today,,it is
Venezuela which is under `at-
tack," he said Sorccfully ';Is
ti5ere any one 'of 'us who'cari~
say with assuranco'.'it capnot
be hey country tomorrow'? 50
let us say to Vcitezuela ? and
her brave people: we ai?e~ with
you ~in full solidarity .and wills
act with you."
But alter requesting the im?~
overthrow ' of its democratic; position of ,unspecified 'sanc~
~. government late last year. ~ tions,~ Rusk appeared to dilute
Moor Left Open :this, demat~ci? by, proposilig ~ a
But Rusk studiously avoided; "clear warning ' to ~tlie Castro
regime that if., it persists ? in
i
'
'
spell
ng out what .
sanctions
should be imposed en 'Cuba
leaving the door open for a
.compromise agreement. '
Venezuela demands that
acts of subversion iri other
American .Republics, the full
weight of the regional secur-
ity system wilt be aplilied."
Venexuela dem
th
nd
t th
a
s
a
e
--- diplomatic and commercial re? .'full weight" of this system
~ lations, as well as all trans. be brought to bear against
,portation anci com~munications~ Cuba, now, rallin~ for Imple?
facilities, between members of ~ mentation of every ~ penalty-
; the Organization of American ~ listed in the Rio Trcaty'except,
States and Cuba be severed .the use cif armed force. j
on a mandatory basis i
Mexico and Chile ~'~~~Q~~o~~y~ t?"t]~e
ly insistent -that no sanctions ? U.S. would' favor the use of
FUe applied, at least on,'an obit +,_: - _
foi a measure ,that w o u l d
"urge our own governments
and those of other free-world
countries to talce appropriatr-
steps in the field of trade with
Cuba." '
Venezuela--- and most other
OAS countries -= want, at the
Jcast, a . resolution calling for
a compulsory: severance of
hemispheric trade with Cuba.
Yet ~ Rusk merely... asked for
a ? measure' "urging" such
actiton,~ ,
Ironically,- ?a ~Icxlcan offi?
vial privately said before Rusk
delivered his speech that al?
thougli Mexico could never
reduce ils opposition to any
resolution calling for the com-
pulsory cutting of diplomatic
relations with Cuba, it could
"live with" a mandatory trade
ban. -
Thus, it appeared that a
compromise along such lines
was possible despite bargain-
ing maneuvers intended to`
save the Yaccs of the "hard"
and "soft" line countries.
Costa lZica, Colombia, and
Panama submitted a resolu?'
Lion yesterday supporting thel
Venezuelan position, and Ar-
gentina and .Brazil circulated
"working' papers" backing, they
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