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East/West Relations, Defence and Arms Control
6. INF will be in the forefront of Kohl's mind.
continued to be firm on INF deployment, but the
parliamentary picture is disturbing.
DSR 11C
He has
Putting back the
Bundestag debate to 21 November has complicated the
deployment programme. While showing sympathy for
Chancellor Kohl's domestic difficulties, we should aim
for a joint public statement (similar to that issued on
21 September) that deployment will go ahead in the
absence of success at the Geneva talks: INF will be the
focal point for discussion of the deterioriation in
East/West relations. The Germans remain almost
desperately anxious to maintain the dialogue with East,
as Genscher's meeting with Gromyko on 15-16 October
They and we will want a thorough exchange on
East/West prospects post-INF deployment, and the Germans
may have ideas on how to prevent a further worsening.
showed.
7. This will be the first Summit at which National
Armaments Directors will report to Ministers of Defence
on equipment collaboration. We expect the Summit to take
forward the task of identifying areas of defence
collaboration, especially the future Combat Aircraft.
Community
Only if
8. We want the Athens European Council to be a success.
This means keeping up the momentum of the negotiations.
With German (and French) help this can be done.
we three cooperate will the post-Stuttgart negotiations
reach a satisfactory and rapid conclusion.
If we
can
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