CALL FOR WRITTEN BRIEFING
Please where necessary
1. Title which should appear at the top of the brief (Visit/Meeting, Place and Date):
Anglo-French Summit: 4 May 1990
2. UK Objectives are:
XN 6 (Issued 8/88)
Detailed discussion with the French on German unification; EC and Security issues
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
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
Title of Individual Brief
WED
German Unification:
2+4
Sec Pol
Soviet
German Unification: Alliance issues and Bilateral Defence Co-op East-West Relations including Lithuania and Soviet Internal
EED
Developments in Eastern Europe
ECD (E)
EC/GDR
ECD (E)
EBRD
Checklist of points to make
Other (use part 7 below if
necessary)
X X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X X
Please continue overleaf if necessary.
7. Short draft contributions to a Private Secretary letter are
required for all bar the CSCE and Hostages briefs. Deadline noon on 30 April. Deadline for briefs for the Secretary of State is COP 1 May. Points to make in draft, please; six copies of background.
8.
copies of each brief in
Time
to:-
final form
SEE ABOVE
draft form should be sent by Date
Name
Dept./Address
Tel. No.
Roger Kershaw
Signature
WED/W66
Date
270 2409
23/4/90