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representatives and Commonwealth Trade Department are asked to
arrange for this.
Country Notes
6. Attention is drawn to notes against Item 16 of Annex A of CFM(67)1. The restriction to a single page may not be practicable where there are important and complicated issues on which the delegation will neeed briefing, but all that is possible
Summaries can be confined should be done by way of compression.
to a simple list of the current issues dealt with in the Note.
7.
The injunction as to extreme brevity does not apply to the
The Country Note brief on Trinidad and Tobago, the host country. on Trinidad and Tobago should provide adequate briefing on any issue likely to be raised by the Trinidadians with members of the delegation and on any background matters of interest of which they should be aware. Atlantic Department will no doubt wish to
consider whether separate briefs on subjects on which it is not necessary for the whole delegation to be briefed should be prepared for use of Commonwealth representatives,
8. It will not be necessary for Departments to deal in Country Notes with issues arising from the Common Market negotiations since
Sterling questions will be these will be covered by briefs 8-10.
covered by a separate Treasury brief, but where sterling questions are of special importance in our relations with a particular Commonwealth country, the Country Note should indicate that this is
covered elsewhere.
9. Departments should clear with Commonwealth Financial Policy Department and O.D.M. any aid point relevant to their Notes.
10. The Note on Tanzania should contain advice for the delegation on relations with Tanzanian representatives at the meeting.
Commonwealth Financial Policy Department
25 July, 1967.
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