October 27, 1962
Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 5:45 p.m., Saturday
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS
TELEGRAM
RECEIVED
12.884
FROM THE EMBASSY IN HAVANA
ON/28/28/X/62
SECRET—EXTREMELY URGENT
DEA/DNU/DAS/DAC/DAM/DOr/600.(24h)
961
Question of Cuba.
351 – 1745hs – SATURDAY – Due to lamentable confusion the telegram of Your Excellency no 170 reached my hands [only] this afternoon, after I had been with the [Cuban] Minister of External Relations [Raul Roa]. I was unable, therefore, to speak to him about the permission for the coming of a small commission of the United Nations but requested him to try to do it with maximum speed. I remind Your Excellency that this matter is very delicate in view of the publicly reiterated affirmation, of this [Cuban] government, that it would not accept any type of audit [fiscalização] or inspection. However, already today, the response of Fidel Castro to the UN Secretary General, in his long initial section, strongly affirms to reject the blockade as the pretension of the United States of America to determine the sovereign acts of Cuba such as the type of defensive arms, ……………………………………………. [ellipsis/undecoded section in original] its relations with the USSR and the steps of internal politics; but does not make any reference to inspection or to an audit [fiscalização], which could indicate a softening in this matter.
LUIZ LEIVAS BASTIAN PINTO
NOTE OF D.C.A. – This telegram was communicated by the Chief of Division to the Mr. Minister of State.
Pinto tells the Foreign Ministry that he met with the Cuban Minister of External Relations, Raul Roa, but did not receive the Ministry's telegram message in time to ask Roa their question about the upcoming commission of the United Nations to Cuba and the Cuban government's affirmation that it would not accept any type of audit or inspection.
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