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PRIME MINISTER'S INTERVIEW WITH "USA TODAY"

The Prime Minister will give an interview to John Simpson, the editor of "USA Today", in London on Thursday 11 February,

We have just received from our Embassy in Washington the attached list of issues Mr Simpson would propose to raise. I should be grateful if your Department would coordinate briefing for the Prime Minister on these issues, cleared by your Private Office, to reach us by midday on Wednesday 10 February.

Yours sincerely

Christine

CHRISTINE LAIDLAW Press Office

Mr Mark Pellew

North American Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office

cc (with encl) Richard Gozney

Private Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office