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MDLIAN 1906

A SEAN POST-MINISTERIAL CONFERENCES: BRIEFING BY CHEYSSON.

SUMMARY.

1. CHEYSSON BRIEFING ON ASEAN PMC.

ALATAS STAR OF THE

SIHANOUK'S

SHOW. JAPAN PLAING AN IMPORTANT ROLE. ECONOMIC DISCUSSION PREDICTABLE. CAMBODIA THE MAIN POLITICAL TOPIC. BRILLIANCE RATHER LOST ON THE EC TROIKA.

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2. EC COMMISSIONER CHEYSSON BRIEFED EC HEADS OF MISSION ON 9 JULY, BOTH IN THE NAME OF THE COMMISSION AS WELL AS ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL (IN THE ABSENCE OF THE TROIKA MINISTERS WHO HAD ALREADY LEFT BANGKOK) ABOUT THE RESULTS

THE ASEAN POST-MINISTERAIL CONFERENCES.

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CHEYSSON DESCRIBED THE PMC AS A CURIOUS AFFAIR

CURIOUS AFFAIR, INVOLVING AS IT DID SIX PLUS SIX, SIX PLUS ONE AND SIX PLUS FIVE PLUS ONE IT HAD BEEN OVERALL A GOOD CONFERENCE, IN A VERY GOOD ATMOSPHERE AND THE DISCUSSIONS HAD BEEN MOST INTERESTING. CHEYSSON GAVE

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A FEW PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES. INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALATAS HAD BEEN THE STAR OF THE SHOW, A MAN OF REAL QUALITY AND FINESSE WITH A SPARKLING RIPOSTE. THE FILIPINO MANGLAPUS HAD SHOWN GREAT QUALITIES AND MADE AN EXCELLENT CONTRIBUTION. SHULTZ HAD BEEN IN GOOD FORM, GENSCHER DIRECT AND POSITIVE. THE THAI, MALAYSIAN AND BRUNEIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS WERE LESS COMMANDING: SIDDHI LACKED ARTICULATION, THE MALAYSIAN ''READ HIS PAPERS'' AND THE BRUNEIAN ''HAD AN INTERESTING HAIRSTYLE BUT LITTLE ELSE''

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ECONOMIC AFFAIRS.

THE DISCUSSION HAD BEEN FAIRLY PREDICATABLE AND THE CONCLUSIONS NOT ALL THAT NOTEWORTHY. THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER HAD BEEN MORE EXPRESSIVE THAN HE HAD EXPECTED. SHULTZ WAS ALSO IN GOOD FORM. DISCUSSION RANGED OVER GATT/URUGUAY AND THE RECENT TORONTO

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