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Draft Agenda for UK-Japan 2000 Group Conference 1993

1. How things are:-

(a) Britain and Europe

(b) Japan and Asia

2. Hong Kong and South China in an Asia/Pacific context.

3. The international system:- US-Europe-Japan relations.

(a) Developments in international trade and finance

implications for UK/Europe and Japan/Asia.

4.

(b) Regional and global security issues- Developments in Europe and Asia.

After the "bubble economies" of the 1980s, elements of domestic change. Political, social and industrial structures for the 1990s.

5. Bilateral Issues:

(a) Good Corporate Citizenship (paper by UK side)

(b) Intellectual exchanges

(c) A UK-Japan successor generation forum.

6. Conference "statement", follow up and future work of the

group.

Note: 1. UK side will produce a background economic brief for

item 2.

2. It is intended that an expanded agenda be produced for

items 3 and 4.