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on this because of cut-backs in the aid programme. The problem

rests with Mr Kirkness, Deputy-Secretary at ODA: would Mr Murray

be able to clear with him the formula in the penultimate

paragraph of the draft?

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29 May 1979

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PS/LPS

PS/Mr Hurd

PS/PUS

Sir A Parsons

Mr Cortazzi

Mr Leahy o.r. SEAD

HK&GD

Mr Watts, Legal Adviser

News Department

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MK O Simpson-Orlebar United Nations Department

I have substantially recast the Department's draft which, frankly, I did not think fitted what we understand to be the Prime Minister's wishes. The UN Secretary-General's message gives us a first-rate opportunity to call for an international conference, and I am therefore submitting straight to PS/LPS a draft which puts on record what we have already done and then calls for a conference

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