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PLANNING PAPER ON THE UK/FRENCH/FRG RELATIONSHIP

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p.a. 1. At his policy review meeting in January the Secretary of State commissioned a Planning paper on this subject, as a basis initially for discussion among FCO Ministers. On 10 May we submitted to him an extended outline, deliberately based on only limited consultation within the Office but taking account of answers provided by Bonn, Paris and other posts to a recent related survey. The Secretary of State commented that the outline was very much on target and also endorsed some suggestions made by the PUS, particularly about giving the outline a more concrete character and paying full attention to costings.

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I attach a copy of the outline which the Secretary of State We are now aiming to work it up into a full draft paper by the end of June. Research Department have kindly agreed to provide Annex A, and WED and Research Department together will be constructing Annex B (the at-a-glance comparison of French, German and British contacts) from pre-existing material. There are four respects, however, in which I need to invite other departments' help with the paper.

()Comments on outline

3. First, although the outline has been generally endorsed by the Secretary of State, I would still be interested in any comments on the general argumentation, telling examples, etc, from departments who were not initially consulted. These should reach me not later than close of play on 6 June.

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4. This is the main requirement. As para c(i) on page 13 of the main paper explains, we would like in Annex C to identify very briefly the need, past scope and future direction for our cooperation with France and Germany (and the building of a

'three-cornered' relationship where appropriate) in the main fields of international concern where all three countries are active. Bilateral and functional aspects (see below) are deliberately not covered. Entries should be of not more than 3 or 4 sentences in each case, but should so far as possible cover both substance and tactics including public presentation - and the resource implications, if any, of intensifying bilateral

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