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RESTRICTED
Discussion
IMMEDIATE
THURSDAY 25 JULY
09.00-11.15
11.30-13.00
Resource Management/General Housekeeping: Chief
Clerk to lead General Discussion
Concluding session (Summary Conclusions to have
been circulated separately)
Future Threats and Prospects? (Mr Burns)
Conclusions
2. As Chairman, I shall want to leave as much time as possible
for general discussion. This means, I suggest, that participants
introducing individual discussion sessions, should ensure that
their presentations last no longer than 10-15 minutes: where more
than one presenter or topic is indicated, they should clearly err
on the side of brevity. Two papers one from the Planners on Asian security, and an overview from the DTI on economic and
commercial developments will be circulated before the
Conference. There is no obligation on any other presenter to
circulate papers beforehand, although you are welcome to arrange for background information/statistical data to be distributed at the meeting if you think that this would help your presentation.
3. The following participants will be coming from the FCO:
Lord Caithness (and Private Secretary), Chief Clerk, Broadbent
(Economic Advisers), Cooper (Planners), H Davies (FED), Colvin
(SEAD), and myself. Also attending will be: John Meadway (OT2,
DTI), Oliver Miles (Joint Directorate), Christian Adams (PEP,
DTI), Richard Manning (ODA), Nicholas Bevan (MOD),
Michael Pentecost (ECGD), and Alan Charlton (Cabinet Office).
4.
I have tried as far as possible to expand the draft agenda in
our telno 125 to BTC Hong Kong in a way that will allow full discussion of a wide range of topics, and enable everybody to make a contribution. If any of the parts that I have allocated gives anyone difficulty, please let me know. Our intention is to provoke a lively and wide-ranging discussion within the not too