13-JUL-1993
12:24
DEL (UK)
33 1 45249837 P.02
016/15
9 July 1993
I.Ruff Esq.,
ERD, FCO
United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
19 rue de Franqueville
75116 Paris
Telephone: 45 24 98 28 Facsimile: 45 24 98 37
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Dear I an,
OECD COUNCIL GROUP ON NON-MEMBER ECONOMIES : MEETING OF 8 JULY
1. It was late in the day by the time this week's CGNME began and the discussion was refreshingly to the point. UK objectives fully met. A particularly good outcome on the Lucerne Environment for Europe Conference follow-up. Results and significant points in discussion were as follows :
i) Korea
Observership of Korea on the Environment Committee and the Committee on Competition Law and Policy was agreed without discussion.
ii) Visit By Deputy Secretary-General Taniguchi to the Dynamic Asian Economies.
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Taniguchi's oral presentation was cut short by the Secretary-General because of lack of time. His written speaking notes were distributed and are enclosed. There is one point mentioned in the notes on which the CGNME will be asked to decide at its next session the participation of China in the DNMES trade workshop to be held in Hong Kong in November. We shall need your (and DTI ́s) final go-ahead on this before the meeting (there is likely to be a paper on the subject). Taniguchi also said that he would present a series of proposals for further seminars to the next CGNME.
iii) Lucerne Conference Follow-Up : the OECD's Role
You will recall that at the previous CGNME meeting several non- European countries expressed doubts about the extent to which the OECD should be involved in follow-up activities to the Lucerne Conference "Environment for Europe. There was concern about whether such activities could be handled by the Environment Directorate without threatening some of the Organisation's core activities. These countries, and some European countries, including the UK, were also concerned that any extra resources for this work should be entirely found from extrabudgetary income. At this week's CGNME, Bill Long, the Environment Director, said that resources were already in hand for the pilot programme of environmental reviews