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ACTION NEA-10
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 IO-13 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-04 H-02 INR-07
L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-01 PRS-01 SP-02 SS-15 USIA-06
EUR-12 SAJ-01 SAM-01 ACDA-07 /091 W
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R 201131Z APR 76
FM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4662
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E.O. 11652:NN/A
TAGS: PFOR, PORG, CE, YO, IN, EG
SUBJECT: MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER: NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT
1. DURING MY APRIL 19 FAREWELL CALL AND DINNER WITH
PRIME MINISTER, SHE TOUCHED BRIEFLY UPON-NON-ALIGNED
SUMMIT AND HER RECENT VISIT TO YUGOSLAVIA. AS MOST OF
HER CABINET HAD DONE PREVIOUSLY, SHE ASKED ME WHYI WAS
BEING TRANSFERRED JUST BEFORE THE NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT,
TO WHICH SRI LANKA ATTACHED SUCH IMPORTANCE.I EXPLAINED
CIRCUMSTANCES AS BEST I COULD, BUT PRIMIN APPARENTLY
REMAINED UNCONVINCED BECAUSE SHE RAISED SUBJECT AGAIN AFTER
DINNER.
2.
2. I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASSURE PRIMIN THAT THE USG
ATTACHED CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE TO THE NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT,
AND THAT WE WISHED THE SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT WELL AS THE HOST
FOR THIS IMPORTANT MEETING. ALLUDING TO RECENT PRESS
REPORTS FROM INDIA THAT UNNAMED FOREIGN ELEMENTS WERE
SEEKING TO UNDERMINE THE SUMMIT, I TOLD HER THAT I
WAS CONCERNED BECAUSE, IN THE EYES OF SOME, SUCH
ALLEGATIONS WERE AIMED AT THE US.SHE SAID THAT
SHE HAD NOTED SIMILAR REPORTS IN YUGOSLAVIA AND
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SUGGESTED THAT SOME OF THEM WERE ALSO DIRECTED AT THE
SOVIET UNION.
3. I WENT ON TO SAY THAT ALTHOUGH WE HOPED SUMMIT
WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL AND WERE PLEASED THAT THE
MODEERATE GSL INTENDED TO FOCUS ON ECNOMIC MATTERS,
I HAD RECENTLY DISCUSSED WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HER
FOREIGN OFFICE THE THREE ISSUES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN
TO THE US: KOREA,MIDDLE EAST, AND PUERTO RICO. THERE
WERE SOME INDICATIONS THAT EFFORTS MIGHT BE MADE TO
PASS A RESOLUTION AT COLOMBO CALLING FOR THE EXPULSION
OF ISRAEL FROM THE UNITED NATIONS AND SUCH A RESOLUTION
WTOLD NATURALLY ELICIT AN ADVERSE REACTION IN THE US.
PRIMIN EXPLAINED GSL'S ACCEPTANCE OF STATE OF ISRAEL
WITHIN PRE-1967 BORDERS, AND RECALLED THAT GSL HAD
SUSPENDED RAHTER THAN FORMALLY BRAKE RELATIONS WITHGOI
IN 1970.SHE HOPED THAT MODERATING INFLUENCES IN COLOMBO
IN AUGUST WOULD PREVENT ISRAELI-EXPULSION RESOLUTION
FROM BEING PUT FORWARD.
4. PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT, ON BASIS HER DISCUSSIONS
WITH MARCHALL TITO, SHE CONTINUED TO BELIEVE THAT SRI
LANKA AND YUGOSLAVIA SAW EYE TO EYE ON MOST NON-ALIGNED
ISSUES.ALTHOUGH SHE HAD FOUND TITO LESS ENERGETIC
THAN BEFORE, HE NEVERTHELESS
SEEMED QUITE ALERT AND PLANNDT TO COME TO SRI LANKA
SEVERAL DAYS IN ADVANCE OF SUMMIT. SADAT, WHOM SHE
ALSO MET IN YUGOSLAVIA, SEEMED ABSORBED WITH MIDDLE
EAST ISSUES, AND HIS PROBLEMS WITH USSR, AND SHOWED LESS
INTEREST IN BROADER NON-ALIGNED ISSUED THAT HAD NASSER.
IN FACT,SADAT HAS SAID HE WAS NOT CERTAIN HE WOULD
COME TO THE COLOMBO MEETING.
5. PRIMIN SAID HER BRIEF STOPOVER IN EW DELHI ENROUTE
HOME HAD GIVEN HER OPPORTUNITY TO EXCHANGE VIEWS WITH
PRIME MINISTER DHANDI AND THUS ENABLED TWO COUNTRIES
TO KEEP IN DIRECT TOUCH AS SUMMIT APPROACHED. INDIANS,
SHE STATED, CONTINUED THEIR OPPOSITON TO BROADER NON-ALIGNED
MEMBERSHIP BECAUSE THIS MIGHT OPEN DOOR FOR
PAKISTAN'S ENTRY.
VAN HOLLEN
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