INFORMATION REPORT: SUBJECT - CUBAN ASPIRATIONS IN UNITED NATIONS
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: MULTIPLE ADRESSEES
Document date: 04/13/1955
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. On 4 March 1955 Emilto NUNEZ Portuondo, Cuban Ambassalor to the United Nations,

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wrote to Octavio FABREGA, Panamanian Minister of Foreign Relations, regarding

Cuban aspirations for a seat on the Security Council In the U. N. General

NUNEZ wrote that after

seven months in the Ministry of Labor Fresident Fidgencio BATISTA had offered him

his choice of any Ministry, the post at ine Embassy in Washington, or continuation

a3 Cuban Ambassador to the U. Mo, which post he had accepted.

2.

NUNE? recalled

that In the U. N. General Assembly of last soar Cuba had aspired

to a seat on the Security Council and had had the

pronise of Panamanian supporg

in this matter: horover, Cuba had withdran when Peru claimed precedenco in 1t

rint to a sest on the security vowill

He also indicated that at present

Cuba is soliciting support, through its diplomatic representatives,

for a seat

on the Security Gouncil which will meet in November 1955,

and, because at present

there 1s no other Latin Anerican menber of the U. N. with similar aspirations,

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not anticipate any conilict of interest.

NUNE stated that the Cuban

request for support had been replied to affirnatively by Chilo, Argentina, Hon-

duras, Haiti, Costa Rica, the Dominican Rapublic, El Salvador, and Pers

3.

NUME? then

asked FABREGA to roply favorably as quickly as possible to the Cuban

request for support in this matter.

NUNS? added that if he becones a member of

the Security Council FABREGA may consider that he will represent Panma as well

as Cuba.

He reminded FABREGA that, becaise of recommendations which NUNEZ made,

Cuba voted tri the General Assembly for Ricardo ALFARO, Panamanian Jurist, for a

position on the Intornational Court of Justice as well as a position on the In

tornational lur Commission, when this was requested by the Panamanian Govemment.

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