M Bourke Esq
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United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Telephone: 45 24 98 28
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Dear
Martin,
Your reference
Our reference
Date
021/2
11 June 1990
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OECD/DAE FOLLOW-UP
1.
The Secretariat have finally produced their promised think- piece on next steps in the OECD/DAE dialogue (C/NM (90) 22). The Secretary-General is looking for preliminary reactions at the next meeting of the Council Group on Non-Member Economies on 22
June.
2.
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espcially the latter.
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At the Council Group meeting on 8 June
which the Ambassador is reporting separately Tan@guchi (Deputy Secretary- General) said he had had
had had favourable
favourable reactions on the four workshops from the Korean, Singaporean and Thai Embassies in Paris
The Malaysian Embassy had been more negative, and continued to harp on about the risk to Malaysia's GSP benefits from over-close association with the
from OECD. (Comment: it would be useful to know if Kuala Lumpur have picked up similar reactions). Hong Kong and Taiwanese reactions were expected shortly. Tanaguchi hoped to sound out all the DAES on next steps when he visited the region in late June/early July. It would help him to have provisional reactions to the ideas presented in C/NM (90) 22 before his departure.
2. On general guidelines, the Secretary-General's latest paper takes a cautious line, reflecting the view endorsed by OECD Ministers that the dialogue needs to advance some way further before we need to address institutional issues. As for the substance of the next stage, the paper follows the UK's earlier suggestion that the dialogue now needs to be deepened in some of the areas already broached by the four workshops and broadened into new fields (see the Ambassador's letter of 2 May).
3.
(i)
(ii)
Among the deepening topics, the paper identifies:
responding to the challenges of structural adjustment
international rules in the area of competition
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