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November 6, 1962

Cable from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, 'Instruction on How to Express Positions Regarding the Cuba-Soviet Relationship'

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Special Urgency

 

Embassy in Cuba, along with all other embassies and consulates,

 

[We] have received the cable sent on 2 [November] regarding the external position on the question of supporting Cuba’s struggle. In general, your ideas are approved. You could refer to the note from Foreign Minister Chen [Yi] to the Cuban chargé d’affaires in China, our government’s statement on 25 October, etc., to positively indicate our position of supporting [Fidel] Castro’s speech on the night of 1 [November]. With respect to the Cuban-Soviet relationship, [you] should not speak but listen [zhiting bushuo].

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

6 November 1962

Instructions from the Chinese Foreign Ministry to the Embassy in Cuba instructing them to indicate their support for Fidel Castro's November 1st speech, but advising "with respect to the Cuban-Soviet relationship, [you] should not speak but listen [zhiting bushuo]."


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PRC FMA 111-00601-05, 5. Translated by Zhang Qian.

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2012-08-29

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