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Energy: there were good exchanges at official level. Agriculture: Mr Gummer had met M Guillaume on 14 April and would be meeting his opposite number on fisheries in the week beginning
12 May.
Mr Jopling had invited M Guillaume to visit Britain in late
June.
2.
M Plaisant expressed satisfaction with the calendar.
WEU
3. M Guelluy mentioned the discussion in the recent UK/France
Andreotti had handled the pol/mil talks of WEU enlargement.
not mentioned in the question well in Venice and the question was communiqué. The Spanish had not mentioned it to M Giraud in Madrid recently. The Venice meeting had been fairly satisfactory.
M
4. Mr Ratford said that because of public and Assembly interest the He wondered what exactly question of enlargement would not go away.
It needed to avoid should be the role of the revitalized WEU.
trespassing on NATO ground.
Guelluy said that European
discussion of security issues was necessary and WEU was forum. The fact that the WEU had agreed a positive non-polemic common report on SDI had avoided giving an impression of European fragmentation.
an available
Bilateral Relations
5.
M Plaisant said that the general state of bilateral relations was rather positive and satisfying; this had not always been the
case in the recent past.
French Embassy London
6. (a) Long-term residents
He
M Plaisant raised the problem of the status of members of the French Embassy in London who had been en poste for a long time. understood British worries but the problem only arose because of the closeness and good relations of the two countries. pragmatic solution could be found.
He hoped a
Mr Ratford said that Britain and
France was not
The British would study
France had different basic answers to this question. the only country affected by British rules. the French paper on the subject. Perhaps discussion by EC Heads of
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