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massagPage 22hoff1097 cabinet. If our colleabage 22nfo1987 this policy, it will form the basis for our general attitude to any proposals which may be put forward at the forthcoming meetings, though we shall not of course make any formal statement of it. Other Commonwealth Governments should be informed immediately.
Relationship of O.E.E.C. to the Council of Europe
14.
It is clear that in the working out of the policy involved in the recommendations of the Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted at Strasbourg, problems will arise of the relationship between the Council of Europe and O.E.E.C. These have been studied by officials, and we annex (Annex C) the results of their consideration of them and their recommendations.
15.
We agree that the general policy should be one of the closest collaboration between the two bodies, but that this collaboration must be on the basis of equality between the two and with full recognition of the fact that the United States Government are at present directly concerned with the work of O.E.E.C. and are not directly concerned with the work of the Council of Europe. We agree also with the detailed recommendations made.
Conclusions
16.
endorse:-
We therefore recommend that the Cabinet should
(a) the policy set out in the telegram at Annex B; and
(b) the recommendations contained in Annex C regarding
the relationship between the Council of Europe and O.E.E.C.
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25th October, 1949.
E.B. R.S.C.