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economy and finances according to which
representatives of the USA, France, Bel-
gium, and the Federal Republic of Germany
would have full control over the economy,
finances, and the actions of the administra-
tive apparatus from top to bottom. Secondly,
they put forward a demand for the recon-
ciliation of the central Kinshasa authorities
with the Lunda nationality in order that for-
eign monopolies might without resistance
exploit the wealth of the province of Shaba.
And, finally, the Western countries persist
in seeking the reconciliation of Zaire with
Angola in order to renew the transport of
natural resources from the province of Shaba
along the Benguela railroad.
P. Luvualu remarked in this connection
that the president of the People’s Republic
of Angola, A. Neto, in his declaration of July
9, announced that the Zairian refugees will
be led from the Zairian borders into the in-
terior of Angola, that Angola will disarm the
detachments of the FNLC [Front for the
National Liberation of the Congo] which
retreat from the province of Shaba into
Angola, and that the Angolan government
proposes that Zaire, in turn, draw off the
UNITA, FNLA, and FLEC bases away from
the Angolan border. The President of the
People’s Republic of Angola in this an-
nouncement also underscored that the refu-
gees may live in any country according to
their choice. This position, said P. Luvualu,
is in complete accordance with the charter
of the Organization of African Unity and
international law.
Then the Secretary of the CC MPLA-
PT raised the problem of Namibia. He in-
formed us that, in appraising the aggression
of the Republic of South Africa toward
Angola at Cassinga, immediately following
the important victory of SWAPO [Southwest
African People’s Organization] in the UN,
the Angolan leadership came to the conclu-
sion that the aggressive actions of the Re-
public of South Africa were made in pur-
suit of the following goals: to weaken
SWAPO and force it to accept the plan of
the 5 Western powers for Namibia; to gain
time, in order to create in Namibia a puppet
political force which would be able to
counter SWAPO; to scare the People’s Re-
public of Angola and weaken Angolan sup-
port for SWAPO.
P. Luvualu remarked that events had
fully confirmed the correctness of this ap-
praisal of the Angolan leadership. For ex-
ample, in the present time in Namibia, the
Republic of South Africa has created the so-
called democratic party with the help of the
renegade [Andrea] Chipanga and the so-
called National Front of Namibia. Vorster
feverishly attempts to prepare elections,
which are falsified from the very beginning,
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT BULLETIN 35
the leadership of the People’s Republic of
Angola. He likewise expressed his gratitude
for the gift of the CC CPSU.
In the course of our exchange of opin-
ions on international problems P. Luvualu
asked that I give information about the situ-
ation in South Yemen after the unsuccess-
ful government coup.
Embassy advisor S. S. Romanov was
present during this discussion.
USSR AMBASSADOR TO THE
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
/s/ V. LOGINOV
[Source: TsKhSD, f. 5, op. 75, d. 1148, ll.
71-75: translated by Sally Kux; copy on file
at National Security Archive.]
Memorandum of Conversation between
Minister-counselor of the Soviet
Embassy in Havana M. Manasov and
Cuban Communist Party CC member
Raul Valdes Vivo, 7 May 1979
we had received from our embassies in a
number of African countries is of a subjec-
tive nature. In this connection I [Valdes
Vivo] was given the task of becoming ac-
quainted with the situation on location, to
have discussions with the leaders of Angola,
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Ni-
geria, and likewise with the Soviet ambas-
sadors in these countries, in order to receive
more complete and more objective informa-
tion about the state of affairs in southern
Africa.
I was tasked, he said, to convey to
J[oshua]. Nkomo [leader of the Zimbabwe
African Political Union, ZAPU] and R.
Mugabe [leader of the Zimbabwe African
National Union, ZANU], that Cuba is un-
able to satisfy their request to send pilots
for the repulsion of air attacks on the train-
ing camps for the Patriotic Front armed
forces; to clarify the possibility of unified
action between ZAPU and ZANU; to lay
out before their leaders and the leadership
of the front-line governments the Cuban
plan for the creation of a provisional gov-
ernment in Zimbabwe.
R.V. Vivo meanwhile remarked that in
Angola at first there had not been clear co-
operation between Cuba and the USSR,
whereas in Ethiopia our countries have
achieved the full coordination of our joint
actions. The policy of Cuba and the Soviet
Union with regard to southern Africa should
likewise be coordinated, he underscored.
My interlocutor laid out the essence of
the Cuban plan, which is summarized as
follows. The declaration of a provisional
government in Zimbabwe is realized not in
exile, but in a part of the liberated territory
of the country; J. Nkomo is proposed for
the post of president of the country, R.
Mugabe for prime minister; the program
platform of the provisional government pro-
vides for the realization of a series of so-
cial-economic transformations, secures the
interests of those countries which recognize
its government; the rights of the white part
of the population are guaranteed, elections
are planned for the legislative organs of the
country; constitutional guarantees are pro-
claimed, etc.
According to the words of R.V. Vivo,
J. Nkomo and R. Mugabe have agreed with
this plan, as have the leaders of the front-
line states. The provisional government, in
the estimation of the Cuban side, would
possibly be recognized at first by 30 coun-
36 COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT BULLETIN
From the journal of
M.A. Manasov
SECRET
copy no. 3
re: no 265
“24” May 1979
RECORD OF DISCUSSION
with member of the CC
Com[munist]Party of Cuba
comr. Raul Valdes Vivo
7 May 1979
I met with R.V. Vivo in the CC of the
Party and, referring to the instructions of the
Soviet ambassador, informed him of the dis-
cussion in the International Section of the
CC CPSU with the members of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Jamaican People’s
National Party (PNP).
R.V. Vivo, having thanked me for the
information, noted the significance of this
meeting, which will enable the development
of the connection between the CPSU and
the PNP and, first and foremost, opens the
possibility for the preparation of PNP cad-
res in the Soviet Union.
Then, in the course of the discussion,
R.V. Vivo spoke about his recent trip to sev-
eral African countries, which was carried out
on the orders of F. Castro. This trip was
undertaken, continued my interlocutor, be-
cause of the fact that the information which
and to achieve an internal settlement on the
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