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The Ambassador in Ecuador (Scotten) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:50 p.m.]
1053. My telegram No. 1047, November 1, 3 p.m.17 The local press this morning publishes the following communiqué:
“The Minister for Foreign Affairs18 in being questioned by members of the press yesterday morning regarding the position of Ecuador with respect to eventual consultative meeting of Foreign Ministers stated ‘that the Government of Ecuador which has presented its points of view to the Governments of Colombia and Venezuela would view with pleasure the consultative meeting of American Ministers for Foreign Affairs proposed by the Government of Argentina, not only in consideration of the utility and timeliness of such a consultation at this time when the arduous postwar problems are approaching but also because it has the conviction that it is an irrevocable duty of the American nations to place in action all the instruments at their disposal for the increasing strengthening of the continental unity and harmony’.”
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