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Tems-In-Africa - Other Countries - Portuguese Territories UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Pa9e 215 Date 06/06/2006 Time 11:29:32 AM S-0902-0010-03-00001 Expanded Number S-0902-0010-03-00001 Title |tems-in-Africa - other countries - Portuguese Territories Date Created f&& Record Type Archival Item Container S-0902-0010: PeaceKeeping -Africa 1963-1981 Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit CONFIDENTIAL Notes on a Meeting held in the Secretary-General*s Office on Friday. 23 June 1974 at. 11.30 a.m. r Present: Ambassador Scr.edo, Permanent Observer of Guinea-Bissau Mr. Gil Fernandez The Secretary-General Mr. I. Kittani The Secretary-General opened the meeting by referring to his talks at the OAU Surmit and his meeting last Saturday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal. Mr. Scares had assured him of their intention to fully implement the United Nations resolutions. His own position was clearly in favour of speedy independence but the military authorities in the new Portuguese Government wanted a referendum. The liberation movements on the other hand say there is no need for a referendum. The Observer of Guinea-Bissau thanked the Secretary-General warmly for his understanding and support of the cause of Guinea-Bissau-— the goal of total liberation and independence. He had come with Mr. Gil Fernandez who had been sent by the PAIGC to 1 inform the Secretary-General of the latest developments. \ With the permission of the Secretary-General he wanted I Mr. Fernandez to deliver the oral message from Mr. Pereira, i -Secretary-General .of PAIGC. Mr. Fernandez said that Mr.Pereira had asked him to come and inform the Secretary of the state of negotiations with the Portuguese government. The latter had asked for time and understanding until they have consolidated their position after the March elections. However, the PAIGC intends to go ahead and apply for membership to the United Nations. (After the meeting,_ Mr. Fernandez informed Mr. Kittani that their intention is to try to bring the matter to the Security Council in "about three weeks time".) He also informed the Secretary-General that they expected negotiations with Portugal to"be resumed in about two weeks time. £ ,- The Secretary-General asked for a clarification of their \ position on the Cape Verde Islands. Mr. Fernandez explained |] that the PAIGC had proposed to the Portuguese side that a jp joint Portuguese/Guinea-Bissau commission be set up to f. supervise the election in Cape Verde for a constitutional ^ assembly which could then decide on the future of the territory. * The Secretary-General said that Mr. Scares had invited him |< to visit Portugal with the hope of exercising some influence over the military authorities. He had accepted the invitation but no date has been set. for the visit. - 2 - Mr. Fernandez referred to the problem of the cease- fire and said that they refused to have one before Portugal accepted the independence of all territories. On the other hand, he confirmed that the PAIGC does not want the Portuguese to leave suddenly. The Secretary-General thanked his two visitors for their kind words. His position and understanding is that Portugal should recognize independence for Guinea-Bissau and the other territories. The case of Guinea-Bissau was easier because all Portugal has to do is to recognize the independence of Guinea-Bissau. The United Nations position on this is clear and it io the same as his own. The Secretary-General suggested they keep in touch about future developments., CONFIDENTIAL Notes on a Meeting between the Secretary-General and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Saturday, 22 June 1974, 3.30p.m. Present: Mr. M. Scares, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal Mr. Mario Ruivo, Secry.of State, Dept.of Fisheries Mr. S.A. Machado from the Ministerial Cabinet The Secretary-General Mr. Ismat T. Kittani !Phe Secretary-General welcomed Mr. Scares and congratulated him on his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new Portugese government. He said he had just come back from attending the OAU summit in Mogadiscio where he had the opportunity to hold talks with many African Heads of State. Haturally the subject of Portugese territories had come up in all these conversations. He v/as grateful to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for coming to New York to meet with him and for the opportunity to hear his views, Mr. Spares wanted first to thank the Secretary-General for this opportunity.to get to know him personally. He wanted to go into the main subject directly. First, he wanted to state frankly and categorically that they wished to co-operate fully with the United Nations to solve the problem. The military, revolt last April against dictatorship and the Colonial regime was very popular and successful. Although the leaders of the revolt" appealed to the people not to demonstrate, they came out into the streets'to show their support. Mr. Scares then outlined the structure of the new regime in Lisbon. President Spinola and the former Chief of Staff of the army have formed a 21 member Council of State. There is also a wider organization composed of lower rank officers. The Council has set March 1975 as the date of holding elections and establishing institutions of democracy. Its policy is that self-determination is the road to decolonisation. Three weeks after the revolt a civilian government was set up composed of the Communist Party, Socialist Party, liberal elements and some independent "technicians". It is - 2 - a temporary government working with the military; it has no electoral mandate. There is a three-fold programme until 1975? (1) consolidation of democracy; (2) full liberties and political freedom and (3) economic stabilization. The economy is in a state of chaos and this is a clear danger to democracy. It is in this context, after 48 years of the oppressive dictatorship that the new government has to attack the problem facing the country. Their first objective is a quick end to the colonial wars. This is why he has lost no time in establishing contacts with PAIGC, FRELIMO and other liberation movements and breaking out of a frozen isolation. Guinea Bissau "With the PAIGC in London he had first proposed a cease- fire which was first accepted but difficulties soon arose with regard to the connextion between Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The military insisted there should be a referendum, ke personally was against the need for a referendum in Guinea-Bissau because of its special status. The Portugese delegation in London agreed to recognize right of self-determination including independence for Guinea-Bissau " and future'independence for Cape Verde". VThen he left London the positions of the two sides were very close. In Li-sbon, however, there was some uneasiness and the President announced the three point policy of the cease-fire, referendum and independence. The Minister of Foreign Affairs also referred to some confusion with regard to an encouraging message from General Gowan of Nigeria, and a less helpful message from the Secretary-General of the OAU relayed by Brazil. He explained that, of course, Brazil wanted to influence events in Portugal in the direction of military dictatorship and away from democracy. PAIGC then proposed that talks should move to Algeria and he accepted and went then with the intention of reaching agreement. Meanwhile, there must have been pressure from OAU and the liberation movements of Angola and Mozambique on PAIGC to harden its position because he found they were not ready to agree as he had expected after the London phase. Mr. Scares then explained the complex situation inGuinea- Bissau. There were military and white civilian elements who could take over and continue the fight against the PAIGC. - 3- To avoid this he had undertaken to have a strict tine-table to hand over territory to PAIGC without allowing takover by these elements. PAIGC was in favour of this approach and did not want immediate departure of Portugese government forces. Now there was in any case no fighting - both sides are having a de facto cease-fire. They are maintaining contact through the Algerian and Portugese Ambassadors in London until the talks can be resumed. To a question by the Secretary-General as to the reason for the change in PAIGC's position, Mr. Soares said they apparently wanted to gain time. There was pressure from OAU and other liberation movements to pr event the establishment of normal relations between Portugal and Guinea-Bissau. Mozambique Mr. Soares e*cplained that the situation in Mozambique was different and more complicated. FRELIMO was strong North of the Zambesi river but not in the territory south of it. Although the talks he had with FRELIMO in Lusaka were cordial they were more difficult than those with PAIGC,, FRELIMO made these demands: (1) Recognition of independence of Mozambique (2) Recognition of FRELIMO as sole representative of the country (3) Immediate transfer of sovernity to FRELIMO. The Portugese side accepted (1) and (2) but not (3), because this v-ould cause South African intervention. They proposed instead an orderly time-table offering a referendum under the United Nations, although the Portugese government preferred not to internationalize the question but to settle it directly. There was also danger of Swaziland claiming the southern part of Mozambique. Mr, Soares emphasized that the revolt in Portugal was by the military and in order to end colonial war and return the armed forces to European Portugal. Therefore they want to negotiate with FRELIMO to this end. But the difficulties of the civilian government in Lisbon should be understood.
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