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RM Whalley Esq
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SUBJECT:
1.
THE QUEEN'S SPEECHES ON THE PROROGATION AND OPENING
OF PARLIAMENT
In response to your letter of 3 July, I enclose three
copies of the proposed FCO contributions to each Speech.
2. Some of the material in the drafts must be regarded as
provisional at this stage. Passages in square brackets in
the Opening Speech concern State visits which have not yet
been officially announced. The inclusion of a reference to
the independence of Antigua and Barbuda which is expected to
be 1 November depends on the date of the Prorogation Speech.
In other instances a number of the proposed passages may need
to be brought up to date nearer the time of delivery.
3.
There are also several subjects which we might wish to
include but where we are not yet in a position to provide
drafting suggestions. In particular we expect that it may
be appropriate to include a reference to cooperation with
the developing countries and possibly to the role of aid in
that context but we are reluctant to propose wording until
we know how matters will develop in the sequence of events
leading up to the Mexico Summit. We may wish to propose
the inclusion of passages on the CSCE but it would not be
sensible to draft them at this stage of the Madrid Conference
/It is also