- Title: BOLIVIA: PRESIDENT GUEVARA ATTACKS U.S. TIN SALES AT OPENING OF OAS MEETING
- Date: 25th October 1979
- Summary: 1. SV Session President Gustavo Fernandez of Bolivia addresses meeting in Spanish 0.10 2. SV PAN Along delegates from Grenada, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Sri Lanka and others 0.19 3. CU Jam???ican delegate speaking in English 0.58 DELEGATE: "On behalf of (Indistinct), the membership of the body had been expanded by t
- Embargoed: 9th November 1979 12:00
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- Location: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
- Country: Bolivia
- Reuters ID: LVA1S6MIL0UK4MYMP5B3LFMFBVID
- Story Text: Bolivian President Walter Guevara Arze opened the ninth Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) on Monday 922 October) with a sharp attack on the United States for its plan to sell off its tin reserves. In his speech welcoming Foreign Ministers and other delegates from twenty-seven countries, President Guevara also said Bolivia would never give up seeking its access to the sea, lost to Chile a century ago.
SYNOPSIS: President Guevara questioned the fairness of the sale, authorised by the U.S. Congress, of thirty-five thousand tons of stockpiled tin. Bolivia, who earns half of its foreign exchange from this commodity, fears that world prices will fall and shatter its fragile economy. The Jamaican delegate welcomed tow new members.
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