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MINED TO SIGN TLATELOLCO BUT WANTS TO BE IN A POSITION
TO TA*E A FEW STEPS TO FULFILL ITS ENERGY PLAN. IT

HOPES TO FINISH NEGOTIATIONS FOR A HEAVY WATER PLANT IN
THE NEXT TWO MONTHS. ONCE THESE MEASURES ARE ACHIEVED,
ARGENTINA PLANS ADHERENCE TO THE BAN ON BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
AMD TO THE TREATY OF TLATELOLCO.

THE SECRETARY SAID HE HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD THERE
’■'ERE CONDITIONS IN THE PREVIOUS JOINT ."OMNUNIQUE.

THE FOREIGN MINISTER NOTED THAT AT THE TIME THE
CIRCUMSTANCES HE REFERRED TO HAD NOT EXISTED.

TEE SECRETARY AGAIN ASKED WHEN ARGENTINA COULD
SIGN.

THE FOREIGN MINISTER REPEATED THIS COULD BE IN
A COUPLE OF MONTHS AFTER ARGENTINA HAS ARRANGED PURCHASE
OF THE HEAVY WATER PLANT. THE SECRETARY OBSERVED THAT
HE HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD THAT ARGENTINA WAS PRESSED ON
THE MATTER SUCH THAT IT COULD NOT ARID' BY THE COMMUNIOUE.
FE ASSUMED ARGENTINA'S STATED INTENTION WOULD BE CARRIED
OUT AS INDICATED IN THE COMMUNIOUE. THE FOREIGN
MINISTER'S RESPONSE WAS THE FIRST INDICATION OF A
DIFFERENT VIEW PREVAILING IN ARGENTINA. PRESIDENT
VIDELA HAD TOLD PRESIDENT CARTER THAT ARGENTINA WOULD
RATIFY TLATELOLCO AND THIS WAS REFLECTED IN THE
COMMUNIQUE.

' THE FOREIGN MINISTER INSISTED THI "CENTRAL CONCEPT"
HAD NOT CHANGED,* WHAT WAS DIFFERENT WERE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES
WHICH ARGENTINA HAD TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BEFORE SIGNING.
VANCE
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