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Date 17 November 1983
Dian Ernand
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MEETING ON DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS
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It was most kind of you to send telegram No. 1 of 27 October. We attempted to make contact with Ambassador Clark. Eut the meeting to which he was invited took place outside Paris and was selective in attendance. But we owe you an account of the matter.
2. The meeting was organised by the Development Centre Nine under its very active new president, Jost Faaland. senior developing country personalities were invited (3 each from Africa, Asia and Latin America) and the chairmen of five CECD committees (ECSS, the Trade Committee, the Steel Committee, the North/South Group and the Development Assistance Committee). The Secretary-General attended as did 3 outside personalities Mark Leland for the United States, Stephen Marris (British,
OECD but an individual rather than an official) and Jagdish bagwati. The Chairman of OECD's Working Party No. 3 was also invited, but could not attend.
The meeting was intended as a general discussion of the t of the current world economic recovery and its implic- ons for the North/South dialogue. It was intended to gut had the rhetoric of the formal dialogue, and from the rather Fetchy account which I have had from Faaland, this seems to
happened. Put there do not seem to have been much give Cubstance. Faoland, who is notably Norwegian in his approach. North/South matters, seemed surprised however to find that, ay from rhetoric, the G77 position on issues like trade- references among developing countries is not monolithic.
4: I gather that the participants found the meeting useful
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