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VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE TO CANADA: 27-28 SEPTEMBER 1985
1. The Secretary of State is to visit Ottawa on
He is
27 and 28 September, following his week in New York for UNGA. to have talks with the Canadian Foreign Minister on the morning of 27 September, followed by lunch hosted by Mr Clark. In the afternoon, it is hoped that he will call on the Canadian Prime Minister and meet members of the Canadian Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence.
2. This will be Sir G Howe's first visit to Canada in his present capacity and the first time a Foreign Secretary has visited Canada since Mr Pym went there in 1982. Mr Clark and Sir G Howe have however had frequent contact over the last year or so. The last full bilateral talks between them were in December 1984 when Mr Clark came to London. They have since then met on several occasions in the context of international meetings, most recently in Helsinki on 1 August, shortly after Mr Clark had been the Secretary of State's week-end guest at Chevening during a private visit to London.
3. Since the two Ministers will have had a week at UNGA discussing world issues, we think the time in Ottawa would be most profitably spent focussing on a small number of problems. We envisage separate agendas for Mr Mulroney and for Mr Clark. Sir G Howe told Mr Clark in Helsinki on 31 July that he hoped to discuss South Africa in the context of CHOGM with Mr Mulroney in Ottawa (Mr Clark will not be going to Nassau). This will be particularly valuable since Mr Mulroney is reported to be distinctly more hawkish on South Africa than Mr Clark whose thinking is more in line with our own. In addition to South Africa we envisage the talks with Mr Mulroney might cover other CHOGM issues, the Bonn Summit follow-up and, if time permits, the Caribbean (Mr Mulroney met leaders of Commonwealth Caribbean countries in Kingston in January).
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We suggest the agenda for the talks with Mr Clark might include SDI (currently the subject of considerable public debate in Canada), the world trading system (including GATT and UK/US/Canada trade relations), indebtedness, Falklands/Argentina, Central America, East/West relations (including the Gorbachev/Reagan Summit), and bilateral relations.
5. The visit will also provide an opportunity for Sir G Howe to offer comments on the Canadian green paper on foreign policy which was published in May and on which a Parliamentary Committee is expected to report shortly. There is also the possibility that the Canadian Government green paper on defence will be published
shortly.
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