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INFO PRIORITY SANTIAGO, MONTEVIDEO, HONG KONG, STANLEY, WASHINGTON INFO PRIORITY HQBFFI, UKREP BRUSSELS, PARIS, UKMIS NEW YORK INFO PRIORITY BRASILIA, UKDEL NATO BRUSSELS
BFFI FOR S02 J2
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS
VISIT BY MR GAREL-JONES TO ARGENTINA: 23-25 JANUARY
17. DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENT: BOTH CAVALLO AND DI TELLA WELCOMED
OUR PROPOSAL TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT. A NEW ARGENTINE TAX LAW IS AT PRESENT IN CONGRESS. IT WAS HOPED THAT IT WOULD EMERGE BY FEBRUARY. THE IMPLICATION WAS THAT THE ARGENTINES WOULD NOT BE READY TO NEGOTIATE BEFORE IT EMERGED, BUT WOULD USE THE INTERVENING PERIOD TO STUDY OUR MODEL TEXTS.
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UN SECURITY COUNCIL: THE ARGENTINES SAID THAT THE UK WAS INVOLVED IN ORGANISING A MEETING OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON 31 JANUARY TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE ROLE OF THE UN IN THE LIGHT OF CHANGES IN EASTERN EUROPE. THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT PARTICIPATION BY COUNTRIES OTHER THAN MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL (FRG, ITALY, JAPAN) WAS BEING MOOTED. ARGENTINA WOULD ALSO WISH TO BE INVITED IF OTHER NON-MEMBERS WERE. THEY WOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR OUR SUPPORT IN THIS.
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ANTARCTIC SECRETARIAT: THE MINISTER PRESSED FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECRETARIAT.
THE ARGENTINES FEARED THAT ITS
CREATION WOULD LEAD TO THE VERY INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE ANTARCTIC WHICH WE WERE SEEKING TO AVOID. THEY PROMISED TO CONSIDER THEIR POSITION AGAIN AND SUGGESTED THAT THE QUESTION BE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL AT THE FORTHCOMING PLANNING TALKS. MR GAREL-JONES AGREED TO THIS.
20. NUCLEAR/MISSILE PROLIFERATION: OLIMA SAID THAT ARGENTINA WISHED TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE MTCR AND NOT SIMPLY BE ASKED TO
OBSERVE ITS RULES. HE HOPED FOR UK SUPPORT. THE MFA ALSO NOTED THAT ARGENTINA WAS STILL ON THE H LIST OF THE FRG AND WOULD BE RAISING THIS WITH THE GERMANS. THEY SAID IT WAS THEIR AIM TO
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