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CODEL BRUSSELS TEINO, CODEL 182 TO FCO
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(E) TARIFF QUOTAS MUELLER-THUNS SAID THAT THE PROBLEMS OF
LEAD AND ZINC HAD NOT YET SEEN RESOLVED WITHIN THE SIX AND
HE DID NOT KNOW HOW SOON IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE PROGRESS. (F) DATES OF FORTHCOMING MEETINGS:
(1) DEPUTIES - WE SPOULD BE OFFERED DEPUTIES MEETINGS ON THE 1ST AND 2ND DECEMBER (THE EURATOM COUNCIL HAS NOW BEEN POST- PONED TO THE 16TH AND 17TH DECEMBER) AND ALSO PROBABLY A ONE DAY MEETING ON EITHER 18TH CR 21ST DECEMBER,
11) MINISTERIAL MEETINGS IN THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT YEAR THE FRENCH DELEGATION HAD PROPOSED A LIST OF DATES FOR THE
FOUR MEETINGS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1971. THE ITALIANS HAD OBJECTED TO THESE BECAUSE THEY WANTED MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
AND OF THE CONFERENCE TO BE RUW TOGETHER WHEREAS THE FRENCH
PROPOSALS KEPT THEM APART. BUT MUELLER-THUNS SAID THAT THE ITALIANS. WERE ISOLATED AND WOULD PROBABLY COME INTO LINE WHEN THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES MET ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3 NOVEMBER. HE THEREFORE HOPED THAT, AT THE DEPUTIES' MEETING, ON 4 NOVEMBER, FIRM DATES WOULD BE PROPOSED TO US FOR DEPUTIES MEETINGS DURING THE REMAINDER OF THIS YEAR AND MINISTERIAL MEETINGS GURING THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT YEAR.
- 2. MUELLER-THUNS ADDED THE FOLLOWING. HE SAID THAT HE EXPECTED
THAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD ON 4 NOVEMBER GIVE US THE COMMISSION'S PAPER ON COMMUNITY FINANCE TOGETHER WITH A COMMENT (WHICH THEY WOULD BE WORKING OUT AT THEIR MEETING ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3 NOVEMBER) AND ALSO THE COMMISSION'S PAPER ON SUGAR, ON WHICH THEY WOULD SAY THAT THEY AGREED WITH THE FACTUAL
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