Your idea of some kind of joint holding company is an interesting one but, as Malcolm Caithness told you, we would prefer to avoid introducing further complicating factors at this stage.
Turning to the IPU and the United Nations, whilst I sympathise with your objective of greater recognition for the IPU, the issue does raise a number of serious difficulties of precedent, with implications for the functioning and work of the General Assembly.
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are aware of these. I look forward to your promised separate note expanding on your ideas but meanwhile you may care to consider the strength of your argument. example, does the IPU have a unique case for General
Assembly observer status? What are the IPU's actual ambitions in this respect.
Finally, on the CSCE parliamentary assembly, as you know our concern all along has been to avoid the unnecessary creation of new bureaucratic structures while accepting that the parliamentarians will decide on their links to existing international organisations. This whole question is now of course in the hands of the Committee of Heads of Delegation. I shall be interested to hear how their deliberations
progress as well as the discussions at the IPU CSCE
Conference in Vienna.
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