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THE PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING WITH MR SONODA

PROSPECTS FOR THE TOKYO SUMMIT

Essential Facts

1.

Prime Minister Ohira will host the Fifth Economic Summit

in Tokyo on 28/29 June. Earlier Summits were held in Bonn (July 1978), London (May 1977), Puerto Rico (June 1976) and

Rambouillet (1975).

In addition to Japan and the UK the

Heads of State and/or Government of the USA, France, Germany, Canada, and Italy will also be present with their Foreign and Finance Ministers. The President of the European Commission

and the President of the European Council (President Giscard) will be representing the European Community for those parts of

the discussion related to Community matters.

2.

There is no fixed agenda for the Economic Summit. But the agreed communique issued in March states that the participants at the Tokyo Summit "will discuss policies for the stable expansion of the world economy in the spirit of mutual cooperation that has been fostered by the previous Summit meetings". In practice

discussion is likely to revolve around the five areas covered at

the previous Summit in Bonn:

(a)

growth, inflation and employment

(b)

trade

(c)

energy

(d) relations with developing countries

(e) international monetary questions

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Preparatory work is in hand between personal representatives of Heads of Government (Sir John Hunt for the UK and Deputy Foreign

Minister Miyazaki for Japan).

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