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Black Africa. In this context the first objective is

probably to achieve a settlement in Namibia.

7. We must seek to prevent Central America from causing a major rift in the Western Alliance and from becoming a debilitating preoccupation for the United States, while recognising their legitimate interest in preventing an extension of Soviet/Cuban power in the

region.

8. In South West Asia we must ensure that Afghanistan

gces into the history books as the high water mack of

Soviet expansion and that the Soviet Union either

withdraws from the country or continues to bear the

full cost of its occupation, political as well as

military.

9.

A just and lasting settlement of the Cyprus problem

is best pursued through the good offices of the UN

Secretary-General rather than through national

initiatives. We should continue to support his efforts

and, at the same time, encourage the continuation of

the intercommunal talks in Nicosia.

10. In the international economic field, the agenda is

laid out in the Williamsburg Declaration: sustainable

non-inflationary growth, the fight against

protectionism and management of the world debt problem.

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