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From the Purviament Representative
United Kingdom Delegation To the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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15 January 1983
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Dear Kevin,
OECD: 1993 MEDIUM TERM STRATEGIC OBJECTIVEG
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/ 1. I enclose a copy of C(93)2 containing the Secretary-Genera) ́s first draft proposing Medium-Term Strategic Objectives for 1998-95 on which we would walcomm instructions, Hero are my own commento.
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This is an annual éxercise initiated in 1990 in an attempt to provide top-down guidance to the Committees which draft their own programmes later in the Spring- It has had limited success. In particular the paper has in the past. sent a weaker message un! resources and priorities than we consider nonsistent with its managerial role. It also fails to give much indication of the longer term role or future directions foreseen by the Secretary- Goneral for the Organization. We nevertholess attach importance to the exercise and shall continua to work to strengthen it.
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On past form a final version of the paper should emerge in late Tebruary after meveral discussions in Council. It will doubtless not be something which the UK can wholeheartedly endorse in every detail. But as in previous years we expect it to be distributed to Committees under the Secretary-General's own authority rather than so an agreed Council document. This should enable us to live with some language with which we continue to have difficulties but are unlikely to be able to remove. Although you will need to scrutiniso sections I and II, the real meat of the paper la section III (Medium Term Strategio Objectives). You will note from the last paragraph of the Secretary-General ́m covering comments that the Council when discussing the paper will this year consider in addition what improvements might be made to the procedure for drawing up and disoussing the budget. As you know we have been pressing for changes for some time. We shall deploy points from our October 1992 paper on the subject (attached for you only).
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As the Secretary-General commenta, the broad lines of the 1992 edition of the paper still seam relevant, He has therefore
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