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his government had been negotiating for some time with Her Majesty's Government over the subject of granting greater autonomy to the Government of Belize on economic matters, particularly on the right of that colony to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements with its neighbors. As pointed out to the Agency's repre- sentatives by Jesus Unda Marillo, the Guatemalan Foreign Minister~ Jorge Garcia Granades, .Guatemala's Special Representative on Belize affairs, and Ian Munn, the son-in-law of Ydigoras, the economic development program which the GOG was then promoting for the Peten area, bordering Belize, was dependent in considerable degree upon reciprocal trade relations with that British colony. Although not specified in the dis- cussions, Chief, JMATE believed that what the Govern- ment of Guatemala wanted specihically was a guarantee of a direct outlet to the sea for the oil, chicle, timber and other products from Peten. Both Chief, JMATE and I I told Ydigoras that international negotiations such as had been dis- cussed were not within the province of the Agency, but they did agree to give the paper to State: - 82 -