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DRAFT

FROM: PRIVATE SECRETARY

TO: MS R MCCOOL

H AND QL SECRETARIAT

CABINET OFFICE

70 WHITEHALL

CONFIDENTIAL

THE QUEEN'S SPEECHES ON THE PROROGATION AND THE OPENING OF

PARLIAMENT

1

Thank you for your letter of 2 July.

I enclose three copies of each of the passages which the Foreign

Secretary proposes for the two speeches.

Prorogation speech contains [

The passage for the

] words; that for the

Opening speech, [

] words.

The following comments may be helpful.

Prorogation Speech

The reference to President Cossiga's visit is square bracketted

as it has not yet taken place.

The reference to conventional force reduction may need amending

if the CSCE Summit has taken place.

The reference to visa abolition for Hungary and Czechoslovakia

is square bracketted because it has not been agreed by Ministers (agreement expected in September).

ST2ACK/1

CONFIDENTIAL