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IMMEDIATE UKDEL ECC BRUSSELS
TELEGRAM NUMBER 32
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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
24 FEBRUARY 1969
TO BE ON DESKS BY 9.00 A.M. 25 FEBRUARY.
ADDRESSED TO F C O TELEGRAM NUMBER 32 OF 24 FEBRUARY REPEATED FOR
INFORMATION TO BONN THE HAGUE LUXEMBOURG PARIS ROME WASHINGTON
AND SAVING TO UKDEL NATO AND BRUSSELS.
MY TELEGRAM NUMBER 29.
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PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEETING WITH THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES.
NIXON AND REY MET ALONE FOR 40 MINUTES AND WERE THEN JOINED BY THE REST OF THE COMMISSION, ROGERS, HILLENBRAND AND MY AMERICAN COLLEAGUE.
2. THE DISCUSSION IN THE FULL SESSION WAS GENERAL: NEITHER SIDE MENTIONED THE SOAMES/DE GAULLE MEETING.
3. NIXON BEGAN WITH AN EXPRESSION OF HIS WILLINGNESS AND DESIRE TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY. REY REPLIED THAT THE COMMUNITY HAD REGARDED U.S. SUPPORT AS HIGHLY IMPORTANT IN THE PAST. THERE WERE NOW A LARGE NUMBER OF TRADE POLICY PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED. THIS COULD ONLY BE DONE BY WORKING SYSTEMATICALLY AND ON SOME ORDERLY BASIS.
4. NIXON SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN IMPRESSED BY THE COMMUNITY'S ACHIEVEMENT. DESPITE THE INHERENT DIFFICULTIES CF OVERCOMING NATIONAL TRADITIONS PROGRESS WAS BEING MADE. THE WORLD COULD BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY A COMMUNITY OF THREE HUNDRED MILLION WHICH
INCLUDED THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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