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Volume #12 - 44. | |
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CHAPTER I CONDUCT OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS | |
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PART
2 DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR REPRESENTATION | |
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SECTION
N VENEZUELA | |
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W.L.M.K./Vol. 333 |
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Memorandum from Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs to Prime Minister | |
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[Ottawa,],
April 29th, 1946 | |
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In the course of conversation this morning, the Venezuelan Consul General, Mr. Pocaterra, spoke again about his Government's desire to establish direct diplomatic relations with Canada. I had promised him a letter which he could transmit to his Government, explaining the difficulties in the way of our taking early action, and I went over with him in conversation the points which such a letter would cover. He said that his Government would welcome an arrangement under which we could designate one man as Minister to both Colombia and Venezuela, and possibly also to Ecuador. The three countries were very closely associated in a number of fields. Specifically, they had recently agreed on a joint programme for developing a single merchant marine for the three countries, and they are negotiating commercial treaties looking to the ultimate achievement of a customs union between them. A number of other countries had established a single diplomatic representative to all three, and had found the arrangement worked quite satisfactorily. Their capitals were now only an hour apart by air and if Chargés d'Affaires could be maintained in the capitals at which the Minister was not present, he thought questions of national susceptibility would be satisfied. N. A. R[OBERTSON] | |
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