Haile Selassie ” The position of Somalia is that wherever people speak Somalian they belong to Somalia. Somalia has refused, and is being armed to a dangerous extent. They have air bases, naval bases, and communication bases. They have many more tanks. We have 20; they have 200. In APC’s, we have 54; they have 310. We have no radar, they have a radar system. Our air forces is over age; they have seven MIG-21′ sand ten IL-281 s. As for anti-aircraft batteries, we have 24 and they have 170. We have no rocket launchers and they have 24.”
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MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS: President Nixon Emperor Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Minassie, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Major General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, May 15, 1973 – 11:03 a. m. -12:13 p. m.
PLACE: The Oval Office
I am here on an urgent matter internationally, affecting the U. S. and Ethiopia and the Indian Ocean and Red Sea area. There has been a change in the situation in our area. You are aware of it, but we feel it closer.
The balance of forces has changed radically because Soviet influence is expanding rapidly.
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