Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez was sitting across from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig as the Organization of American States met in Washington last week for an emergency session to consider the Falklands crisis. Staring directly at Haig during a virulent, 45-minute speech, Costa Méndez charged that U.S. support for Britain was "illegal and repugnant" and that the U.S. had "turned its back" on Latin America. He warned: "The future of the inter-American relationship is under threat." As Haig sat in stony silence, most of the assembled delegates gave the Argentine diplomat...
...through U.N. Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. To be sure, the hopes for a diplomatic settlement were fragile. The greatest gulf between the disputants was still caused by the central issue: the ultimate disposition of the Falklands. But Argentina's Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez optimistically declared: "We are closer to peace than we are to war." Said Sir Anthony Parsons, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N.: "I think we are making progress again." Declared Pérez de Cuéllar on Friday: "There is always a risk...
...Even Costa Rica, whose stability has given it the nickname "the Switzerland of Central America," is having troubles. It currently owes nearly $4 billion in public and private debt and is in a deep recession...
...result of the British assault on South Georgia, Costa Méndez postponed, then canceled his meeting with Haig...
...Argentine diplomat declared that the U.S. mediation effort was "suspended" and that his country was "technically at war" with Britain. Costa Méndez took his case to a Washington meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. There Argentina intended to invoke the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...