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043757 MDLIAN 1906
E CONOMIC SUMMIT. IN THE SIX PLUS SIX MEETING, DISCUSSION ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE WAS RELATIVELY RESERVED. IN THE SIX PLUS ONE (WITH THE TROIKA) DISCUSSION WAS A LITTLE SHARPER. SUBSIDIES WERE NATURALLY DISCUSSED. ASEAN RAISED THE PROPOSED TAX ON OILS AND FATS EVEN THOUGH (OR PROBABLY BECAUSE) THEY KNEW IT HAD IN EFFECT BEEN KILLED BY THE COUNCIL. HE SAW PROSPECTS FOR
RESOLVING PROBLEMS ON TROPICAL FRUITS FAIRLY SOON.
THE EC HAD ENDEAVOURED TO REASSURE ASEAN ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF A SINGLE MARKET, EXPLAINING THAT IT WAS NOT A CLOSED MARKET. ASEAN WERE NOT ENTIRELY CONVINCED. BUT LISTENED TO WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY VERY CAREFULLY. BOTH ASEAN AND EC COMMENDED PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC COOPERATION CURRENTLY UNDER WAY.
5.
POLITICAL.
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THE MAIN INTEREST IN THE SIX PLUS SIX HAD BEEN POLITICAL. WEST RELATIONS, PARTICULARLY SOVIET-US RELATIONS EVOKED CONSIDERABLE INTEREST BUT AFGHANISTAN AROUSED NEXT TO NO INTEREST, THE MIDDLE EAST ONLY IN PASSING, SOUTH AFRICA SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SIDE, BUT NOTHING OF ANY IMPORTANCE. NARCOTICS CONTROL HAD RECEIVED SOME ATTENTION.
6.
CAMBODIA AND THE JAKARTA INFORMAL MEETING (JIM) HAD OCCUPIED CENTRE STAGE IN THE DISCUSSIONS. ALATAS HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE. DISCUSSION HAD BEEN PRUDENT, FINELY TUNED, POSITIVE. THE THAIS HAD SHOWN QUITE A REMARKABLE CHANGE, ALTHOUGH THEY STILL PLAYED THEIR CARDS VERY CLOSE TO THEIR CHEST. IN DISCUSSION, ASEAN HAD BEEN A LITTLE MORE CAREFUL THAN
IN THEIR COMMUNIQUE (WHICH HAD PRODUCED A PROMPT REACTION FROM HANOI)
PARTICIPANTS CLEARLY WANTED JIM TO GO AHEAD.
THERE WAS
NO MENTION OF ANY INITIATIVE BY THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT. THERE WAS NO DETAILED DISCUSSION OF ANY PARTICULAR PLAN: THE UN FRAMEWORK WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO THE TROIKA AND ASEAN'S WORKING PAPER WAS NOT TABLED. THE DISCUSSION ON REFUGEES HAD BEEN POSITIVE, WITH ASEAN AND DIALOGUE PARTNERS ACHIEVING A MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EACH OTHER'S POSITIONS.
7. SIHANOUK'S MEETING WITH THE TROIKA HAD BEEN VERY INTERESTING. SIHANOUK HAD MADE AN EXCELLENT EXPOSE BUT IT HAD BEEN RATHER LOST ON TROIKA MINISTERS. GENSCHER SEEMED ASLEEP MOST OF THE TIME AND THE SPANIARD (ORDONEZ) AND THE GREEK (PANGALOS) VERY ANXIOUS TO GET AWAY. SIHANOUK HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE ''MUCH TOO REFINED'' FOR ALL THREE. HE HAD BEGUN BY MAKING IT CLEAR THAT THE VIETNAMESE WERE WHOLLY
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