PUREIGE SEC. - MADRID PRESS
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QUESTION:
Secretary Shutlz just told us that he was disappointed by the
fact that the Spanish Government decided to remove the American What is your own appreciation of this planes of the 401 Ving. Spanish decision if you agree with Mr. Shutlz's view on it, and perhaps you could also comment on Mr. Gonzalez's speech last night in which be said more or less that the "normal state" in the
Don't you think that can
Alliance was disagreement between members. contradict a little bit the idea of cooperation within the European Community in which everybody strives for a common political view
one voice?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
members
are
On your second point first, I think that one of the most important features of the alliance of sixteeu democratic countries is that it does proceed by democratic discussion and, as people were
the voices of the smallest saying in the discussion this morning,
the point was made by lceland and by Luxembourg listened to with as much seriousness as the voices of the largest members. I think that that acknowledges, therefore, that on any topic that comes up for discussion there may well be disagreement and you may start from differing positions, but the great thing is that we have been able - from those different starting points
reach agreement and have been able to achieve so much in the Alliance in recent years, so I am not surprised by what Prime Minister Gonzalez said and I think that it is natural in an alliance
of sixteen democratic countries.
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