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Hartling is due to report to the General Assembly in November. There is a standard item in the Third Committee (Item 83 of this year's provisional agenda). The question of what is "political" and what is "humanitarian" will arise on that occasion too. But it is obviously too early to say where the balance should be struck. Obviously the Vietnamese performance will be an influential factor in this.
5.
Community coordination in advance of, and at, the meeting last week had a curate's egg quality to it. There was little disposition to go along with our more rigorous approach to Vietnamese behaviour. But at the same time, the collective Community influence is presumably something which the Vietnamese will take into account, especially in the UN context, and perhaps more in New York than in Geneva. It is thus worth thinking about how we can further use the Community in pursuit of our own policies. Colin Monro will, I think, have done a record of the two Community coordination meetings at Ministerial level on 20 and 21 July which I attended with Mr Blaker.
Yours
feeri
PHR Marshall
cc:
PRA Mansfield Esq CMG, UKMIS New York
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