CALL FOR WRITTEN BRIEFING
Plea where necessary
1. Title which should appear at the top
of the brief (Visit/Meeting, Place and Date):
ANGLO-ITALIAN SUMMIT: LONDON
23 FEBRUARY 1990
XN 6 (Issued 8/88)
2. UK Objectives are:
TO EXCHANGE VIEWS WITH ITALIANS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN EASTERN EUROPE, EAST/WEST RELATIONS/DISARMAMENT AND, IN VIEW OF THEIR PRESIDENCY, TO INFLUENCE THEIR THINKING ON EC PRIORITIES
3. The user of the briefing has been consulted about requirements and has confirmed
need for written briefing.
4. (Where appropriate). The Post has been consulted.
5. Where appropriate). An agenda has been agreed.
In most cases, officials should be given an oral briefing supplemented, if necessary, by a checklist of "Bull Points/Memory Joggers". Only rarely should it be necessary to provide officials with full written briefing.
6. Could Departments provide the following briefs:-
X
X
*FORM OF BRIEFING REQUIRED
(See point 6 on checklist overleaf)
Background
only
Full brief in
Standard Format (see FCO circular 170/87 of 15.7.87)
Department
ED
iSOVIET
Title of Individual Brief
Developments in Eastern Europe
Developments in USSR
WED
The German Question
CSCE UNIT The Role of CSCE
GEC POL/
ACDD
RCD(E)
Alliance issues
EC External (incl. E. Europe)
7.
See covering minute.
3. copies of each brief in Time PM 1200 to:-
Name
Checklist of peints to makej
Other (use part 7 below if
necessary)
X
X
X
X
IX
X Please continue overleaf if necessary.
X
final form
draft form should be sent by Date 19.2.90
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE 1200 on 20.9.20
Dept./Address W67/K129
Tel. No.
(new location)
270 2406
Date
2.2.90
ALLAN HIRD
Signature
Mery