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SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH HIGH COMMISSIONERS, 5pm,

21 NOVEMBER 1984

DEFENSIVE BRIEF: AFGHANISTAN

POINTS TO MAKE

UNGA

1.

Record majority (119-20-14) renewed condemnation of Soviet

Union in UN General Assembly debate. Demonstrates that inter-

national concern, after nearly five years of Soviet occupation,

has not diminished.

UN Initiative

2.

We support Cordovez' efforts based on provisions of

UN resolutions. Der prospects for political settlement still

remote. Pakistania have been helpful to Cordovez and the bar

to progress is Soviet refusal to negotiate a timetable for

withdrawal. The message from international community must be

that Soviet Union must make this concession, in own beat interests and interests of suffering Afghan people.

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