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MDLIAN 1792
BY THE FIRMNESS AND STRENGTH OF THE WEST. CHANGES IN THE SOVIET
UNION HAD NOT YET INFLUENCED MILITARY PROCUREMENT OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE KGB. HE POINTED OUT THAT, WHILE THE SOVIET UNION AND USA WERE DESTROYING MEDIUM-RANGE MISSILES, CHINA WAS PRO- DUCING AND SELLING THEM. HE APPEALED TO RAISE THE SUBJECT WITH
THE CHINESE SIDE.
4.
TORONTO SUMMIT AND ECONOMIC MATTERS:
RESULTS OF THE ASEAN SUMMIT IN MANILA AND OF THE TORONTO SUMMIT WERE REVIEWED. AMONG OTHER ECONOMIC MATTERS THE PHILIPPINE AID PLAN HAS BEEN RAISED BY THE ASEAN SIDE. (CF. COREU ON TROIKA MEETING WITH THE PHILIPPINE FOREIGN MINISTER).
B) DIALOGUE 6+5+1 (EC AS OBSERVER): REVIEW OF POLITICAL
AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PACIFIC REGION.
IN THEIR INTERVENTIONS NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA EXPLAINED THAT THE SITUATION IN VANUATU NOW SEEMED MUCH MORE STABLE THAN A FEW MONTHS AGO AND THAT LIBYAN INFLUENCE SEEMED TO HAVE DIMINISHED. THE SITUATION IN FIJI, HOWEVER, CONTINUED TO RAISE CONCERN, PARTICULARLY SINCE THE DISCOVERY OF ARMS SHIPMENTS.
AT THE INITIATIVE OF MR. SHULTZ THE DIALOGUE PARTNERS AND ASEAN EXCHANGED VIEWS ON HOW INTERACTION BETWEEN THE PACIFIC R IM COUNTRIES COULD BE INTENSIFIED, AND HOW AWARENESS OF THE PACIFIC PERSPECTIVE COULD BE RAISED WITHIN THE COUNTRIES. CONTEXT, THE INITIATIVE OF FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER NAKASONE WAS REFERRED TO.
C) DIALOGUE 6+1
IN THIS
IN THE BILATERAL DIALOGUE MAINLY ECONOMIC MATTERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CREATION OF THE INTERNAL MARKET OF THE EC WERE DISCUSSED. THE OUTLOOK FOR ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF THE EC AND ASEAN WAS GENERALLY CONSIDERED POSITIVE.
THE 7TH EC-ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING WAS REGARDED AS AN IMPORTANT STEP FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF MUTUAL COOPERATION. AS A FOLLOW-UP TO IT MALAYSIA SUGGESTED THAT THE EXPERTS WORKING GROUP ON ECONOMIC QUESTIONS SHOULD MEET SOON. THE CLOSE COOPERATION IN FIGHTING DRUG ABUSE SHOULD CONTINUE.
THE INDONESIAN FOREIGNNG MINISTER THANKED THE TWELVE FOR THE CLOSE COOPERATION DURING ITS TIME AS COUNTRY-COORDINATOR. MALAYSIA WILL FROM NOW BE COUNTRY-COORDINATOR OF ASEAN FOR
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