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pension', so Anyaoku wanted to have one more run on this issue. The Canadian Foreign Minister was trying to get a meeting of the Committee of Foreign Ministers, but this was proving difficult.
The Prime Minister described his recent contacts with the ANC, including over South Africa's re-admission to the ICC. He liked Anyaoku, who was a nice, able man and he could understand why he preferred to be dragged towards a change of policy rather than to drag others. Mr Mulroney agreed. He thought the Prime Minister's approach of trying to get action on South Africa before CHOGM was the right one. Otherwise we would be faced with Mugabe in full cry.
Mr Mulroney went on to express reservations about the Commonwealth Secretary General's strategic action plan. Canada was prepared to make her contribution to worthwhile projects. was not convinced about this one. The Prime Minister agreed. did not want to undermine Anyaoku, and he wanted something to show for his first CHOGM. But we would need to try and channel his ideas.
Trinidad Terms
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The Prime Minister sought Mr Mulroney's agreement to G7 endorsement of Trinidad Terms. Mr Mulroney said that there was a good G7 Summit tradition of action on behalf of developing countries. He had seen a piece in Le Monde quoting Mitterrand's claim that he was the only person who cared about developing countries. Agreement to Trinidad Terms would take the wind out of Mitterrand's sails.
The Prime Minister agreed to a suggestion by Mr Mulroney that, if Trinidad Terms were agreed at the G7 Summit (and conceivably even if they were not) the Prime Minister should write to all Commonwealth Heads of Government explaining how he had pressed the case at CHOGM. Mr Mulroney thought that it was important for Commonwealth leaders to see that the two Commonwealth members of the G7 Summit were looking after their interests. The Prime Minister thought this a very good idea. He would refer in the letter to Mr Mulroney's role and would clear a text with him.
President Gorbachev
The Prime Minister said that, on first analysis, President Gorbachev's message to the Economic Summit looked like a re- hashed version of the Pavlov plan. We would need to ask Gorbachev how he envisaged carrying out these plans. What did he mean by price liberalisation? Did he mean market forces or price rises? What sort of agreement did he have with the nine Republics? Was it contingent or qualified? Could Gorbachev achieve the reduction in the deficit that was needed? in our interests or Gorbachev's that he go away snubbed. needed to ask him some fairly probing questions. There should be agreement on some form of associate status for the Soviet Union with the IMF, leading to a shadow IMF programme. would also be support for technical assistance, but a number of East European nations had been reminding the G7 participants
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