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SUBJECT:

WEU ASSEMBLY RECOMMENDATION 393 :

CHINA AND EUROPEAN SECURITY

1. Your minute of 26 September. This was the first

time for us to see the final version of the Assembly

recommendation; the'minor amendment' you mentioned in

your minute of 10 June seems to have been the addition

of an explicit call for the lifting of 'COCOM restri-

ctions on trade with the eastern countries'. This

call is by no means helpful to our interests.

fact that it was made suggests that our work last

May in preparing a guidance note for the British

delegation was largely a waste of time.

2.

The

The draft Council reply is unacceptable on the

COCOM point and could be greatly improved on others.

We would like to suggest the following self-explanatory

amendments, which we have cleared, as appropriate

with TRED, Defence Dept and HKD:

a.

at beginning of first inset paragraph insert:

'The member states of WEU individually maintain

a wide range of political contacts with the Government

of the People's Republic of China through exchanges

of visits and other channels.

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These contacts provide

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