Chile: the balanced view : a recopilation of articles about the Allende years and after

POL), these weapons exceed the requirements to equipa division of over 15,000 men. Transport of the explosives alone would require using over 50 military trucks. My government wishes that this fact, whose scope was hitherto unknown, be materially witnessed and that the caliber and origin ofeach unit be verified forthis purpose. I submitto the Council acting provisionally as Organ of Consultalion, for consideration, the draft resolulion thal I have handed lo the Secretary and which reads: THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES ACTING PROVISIONALLY AS ORGAN OF CONSULTATION RESOLVES: 1. To authorize the Chairman ofthe Permanenl Council of the Organization to appoint a Committee to verify on the spot the evidence offered by Chile 'at Ihe meeting of the Council held on October 23, 1974, and lo report thereon lo thé Fifteenth Meeting of Consultation. 2. To request the American governments and the Secretary General of the Organiza– tion to give fuI! cooperation to facilitate that task of the Committee. Consideringthe seriousness of the facts we have reported, the righl we have lo be heard by Ihe Provisional Organ of Consultation on a petítion intended simply and purely to verify the evidence I have just submitted and It:le numerous existing precedents, Mr. Chairman, I am certain thal the Government of Chile will be pleased to direclly provide the governments with Ihe corresponding visual evidence. I am certain, Mr. Chairman, that it will not be necessary to further explain the reasons that move my governmentto request Ihe appointment ofthis Committee. As an illustration in connection with my request, however, I wish to recall thal the latest precedent on a similar matter was the denunciation made by Venezuela in Decembér 1963. On Decertlb.er 3, 1963, a special meeting of the Council of Ihe Organization heard the Representative of Venezuela explaining the factual and legal bases invoked by his Go– vernment and the evidence it submitted. He made special reference to the fact that on November 2, 1963, Ihe authoritiesof his country had found large amounts of war materíals hidden at a location known as "Macama" on the coast of the State of Falcon. At that meeting, that is to say, at that on December 3, 1.963, after'hearíng several Representatives, Ihe Council of the .Organization approved a resolution presented by Ihe Representative of Venezuela himself, by virtue ofwhich it was decided to co.nvoke the Organ of Consullation and to act provisionallyassuch. Immediately afterthis, the Council metacting provisionally as Organ of Consultation and approved wilh a si ight change, the draft: resolution submitted by the Representative of Venezuela authorizing the Chairman of the Council tb appoint a Committee. As an example Iikewise, Mr. Chairman, I wish to say that the abundant material found in 1963 does not bearthe most mínimum relation tothevolume ofthe material illegally broughl into Chile to which I halle just referred, Merely as an example, I wish to point out that in 1963 it was a queslion of twelve long weapons and in 1974 we are speaking of nine thousand two hundred sixty-three; Ihat while no short weapons were exhibited in 1963, we now have six thousand nine hundred forty-five; that while on that opportunity heavy arms numbered thirty-four, such are now one hundred and twenty, and while explosives and munitions, bombs and grenades then reached some six tons, we now have eighteen. Finally, Mr. Chairman, coming to the last reflections of my statement, I wish to refer to the words used by Prime Minister Fidel Castro in his speech of last September 28; to the statement made before the General Assembly of the United Nations by Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Raúl Roa, and to the cable that has just come in from Mexico on the statement recently made by the former Minisler of Education and member of Ihe board of the 105