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the Federal Government's future as a member of the European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and referred to "partial" reductions in short range nuclear forces in response to his visitor's rhetoric on this issue. Herr Kohl had also condemned the Berlin Wall as a
"repulsive symbol". The two sides' Joint Declaration had been generally unexceptionable, with strong references to self-determination, human rights and the problem of
errorism, though it had also given some respectability to esident Gorbachev's concept of a "common European home". anwhile the United Kingdom's relations with the Soviet
appeared to be recovering somewhat following their Mine at the time of the recent expulsions.
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In brief discussion, it was noted that neither President Gorbachev nor the German Democratic Republic had uttered any condemnation of the current repression in China.
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said that the Polish leader, General Jaruzelski, had sted Britain the previous weekend and she had had a loncussion with him. He had reminded
He was
her of her statement ding her visit to Poland the previous November the the Communist Party were to relax its central political control, recognise Solidarity and move towards establishment of democratic institutions, Poland would find a reaf ponse from the West. now asking her to honour undertaking. Solidarity had been recognised and had swept board in the recent elections. He had accepted the popular verdict, wounding though it was for him personally The General had added that the policies he was pursuing President Gorbachev's full support. The Prime Ministe response, which had
Wesponse, been carefully prepared, had given recognition to the correctness of the General's react to the election results. Her response had five elements. First, Poland should seek an accommodation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where the United Kingdom would use its influence to ensure that the conditions imposed, though exacting, were not intolerable for Poland.d, since time would be required to place the Polish economy on an upward trend, in order to help bridge the gap the hited Kingdom would re-schedule Poland's payments of real and interest on its debt to the United Kingdom due year, over ten years with five years' grace, and would support general re-scheduling on these lines in the Club. Third, the United Kingdom would seek its European Community partners' agreement to the liberalisation of Quantitative Restrictions to enable Poland to expand its
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