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Raymond Lloyd
A Fourth 100 QUESTIONS on DEMOCRACY
asked at Head-of-Government & Other Meetings 1997-1999
7 May 1999 @ Raymond Lloyd
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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country *FR/PD #Followup
7. 5.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD(2) John Spellar Defence Minister UK FR/PD
5. 5.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Joe Lockhart White House spokesperson USA FR/PD
4. 5.99 " " " Alain Richard Minister of Defence France FR/PD
23. 4.99 " " " Clare Short Sec State Int Development UK FR/PD
" " " " Admiral Sir Ian Garnett Chief Joint Operations FR/PD
20. 4.99 London European Bank Yannos Papantoniou Chair Board of Governors FR
" " " " Urkaly Isaev Chair Foreign Investments Kyrgyzstan FR
17. 4.99 " " " Gagik Yeghiazaryan Exec Dir Devt Agency Armenia FR
16. 4.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Tony Lloyd Minister Foreign Office UK FR/PD
8. 4.99 " " " Clare Short Sec State Int Development UK FR/PD
QUESTIONS
7. 5.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD(2) John Spellar Defence Minister UK FR/PD
You have given us a useful list of Milosevic's cronies: can you provide a similar list of leaders of Serbia's
democratic opposition, both in Yugoslavia and abroad, and let us know what efforts Allied Force is making to bolster such
opposition, for example, by forming a government-in-exile?
Kosova is the second time in five years, after Bosnia, where Britain has fought to safeguard the human rights of
Moslem populations: has this resulted in more British Moslems joining the armed services, either after a targeted
recruitment drive, or through spontaneous enlistment?
5. 5.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Joe Lockhart White House spokesperson USA FR/PD
This Saturday, 8 May, is World Red Cross Day, and today itself is the 80th anniversary of the founding in 1919,
by the US, France, Britain, Italy [and Japan], of what is now the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies [with whose information office I worked in the late 1950s on behalf of Hungarian and Algerian refugees]: given
the Alliance's determination to distinguish between the Milosevic dictatorship and the Yugoslav people, could
consideration be given to using World Red Cross Day, if not as a bombing pause to signal to the Serbian democratic
opposition our wish for an eventual diplomatic solution, then as an opportunity to identify the medical needs of Serbian
and Montenegrin civilians inadvertently created by Allied Force?
4. 5.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Alain Richard Minister of Defence France FR/PD
Do you foresee the opportunity in several months' time of putting into operation in Kosova some of the principles
of last year's St Malo declaration on European defence, such as happened when France and Britain took the lead in
Europe in the 1920s after the US presidential paralysis of 1919, and which might circumvent in future the US presidential
paralysis which occurred in 1998?
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* FR/PD denotes the writer's press accreditation as honorary correspondent of the New York-based, 1941-founded,
Freedom (House) Review (ISSN 1054-3090), or the Westminster-based, 1997-founded, Parity Democrat (ISSN 1367-
6946). Most questions were asked live, but where I was not recognized or allowed only one question, others were handed
in or sent on.
# Denotes an 8- 14-page paper on women's advancement and democracy prepared before the meeting, and sent with a
postscript of questions asked at the meeting. OP denotes number and date of letter in 1981-97 series "Letters to Citizens
and Leaders in Open Polities", following up the question. The above list is complemented by five others, three earlier "100
Questions on Democracy", and three "100 Questions on Women's Advancement".
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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country *FR/PD #Followup
23. 4.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Clare Short Sec State Int Development UK FR/PD
Nato has made a point of inviting to its 50th anniversary summit all the countries bordering on Federal
Yugoslavia: is it also inviting representatives of democratic Montenegro?
23. 4.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Admiral Sir Ian Garnett Chief Joint Operations FR/PD
Is the Royal Navy in a position to take control of the ports of Kotor and Bar, both as a guarantee of Montenegro's
autonomy, and as a possible staging port for the Kosova peacekeeping force?
20. 4.99 London European Bank Yannos Papantoniou Chair Board of Governors FR
On the Bank's constitutional commitment to multiparty democracy, did the Council of Europe's recent suspension
of Belarus's application for membership have any quantifiable impact on the Bank's promotion of investment in Belarus?
And, conversely, does the Bank have contingency plans to promote investment in Montenegro, as that nascent democracy
tries to distance itself from the ethnic fascism of Federal Yugoslavia?
20. 4.99 London European Bank Urkaly Isaev Chair Foreign Investments Kyrgyzstan FR
With the European Bank "committed to the fundamental principles of multiparty democracy", and with
Kyrgyzstan being the most free of the five Central Asian republics, has your commitment to democracy had a quantifiable
effect on foreign investment in Kyrgyzstan?
17. 4.99 London European Bank Gagik Yeghiazaryan Exec Dir Devt Agency Armenia FR
How far is Armenia using the 1700th anniversary in 2001 of the arrival of Christianity - the world's first
Christian state - as a target date for economic, political and social advance in Armenia?
16. 4.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Tony Lloyd Minister Foreign Office UK FR/PD
The Alliance, quite rightly, has provided sanctuaries for Albanians, but what steps are being taken to provide
sanctuaries for Serbs, for the frightened students and other tens of thousands who are not Milosevic's willing executioners,
sanctuaries in neighbouring Nato countries such as Hungary and Greece, or applicants Romania and Bulgaria? I ask this
as someone who, in 1957, worked in Yugoslavia among 20 000 Hungarians fleeing soviet communism, and it could well
be that modern democratic Hungary, for example, would reciprocate hospitality to neighbouring Serbs fleeing ethnic
fascism.
8. 4.99 London Kosova briefing - MoD Clare Short Sec State Int Development UK FR/PD
With both his father and mother reportedly having committed suicide, it is quite possible that Milosevic, like
Hitler, will take his own life as a way out of the disaster he has created: in any event, what contacts have Britain and the
US made with Serbian Adenauers and Brandts with a view to bringing about the ultimate justification of Allied Force, to
bring Serbia into the democratic community of nations?
11. 3.99 London Turkey & Nato Kevin Tebbit Permanent Secretary Defence UK FR
What will be the effect of the defence arrangements proposed under the British-French initiative at St Malo on
the protection of Moslems in Sandjak, who may be the next on Milosevic's hitlist?
10. 3.99 London Nato at 50 - RUSI George Robertson Sec State for Defence UK FR/PD
Nato, understandably, has promoted itself as an alliance defending peace, though such initiatives as Peace
Through Nato, and the Partnership for Peace Programme, and virtually all Nato members, with the possible exception of
Iceland - which has no army - have taken part in peacekeeping operations, whether under UN or Nato umbrellas: is it not
time that Ministries of Defence, many of which were once Ministries of War, were renamed Ministries of Defence and
Peacekeeping which, among other advantages, may limit budget cuts to the relevant ministries' defence of peace and
freedom? And, could Britain give such a lead to other Nato democracies?
10. 3.99 London Nato at 50 - RUSI Strobe Talbott Deputy Secretary of State USA FR
In the 1940s there were at least three longstanding or renascent democracies, Brazil, the Caribbean and South
Africa, which sent forces to fight, and die, for Europe's freedom: without wanting to dilute Nato's military membership, is
there not a case for Nato members to take a lead in creating a new association to cover the Atlantic Rim as a whole which,
unlike the Pacific Rim, will be based on a shared cultural and political heritage, but which also, given the approaching
bicentennial in 2002 of the beginning of the end of the slave trade - that between Denmark, West Africa and the Virgin
Islands - will foster a new triangular trade of democracy?
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10. 3.99 London Nato at 50 - RUSI Jose Cutileiro Sec Gen Western European Union FR/PD
Nato's 50th anniversary summit in Washington coincides with the 25th anniversary on 25 April 1999 of the
democratic "carnation" revolution in Portugal: Nato has no method of suspending militaristic regimes from membership, as
was seen, in the 1960s, with Greece and Turkey: is there, or will there be, any constitutional provision in the Western
European Union to ensure that it will always remain a union of democracies? And, do you foresee any peacekeeping
operation undertaken solely at WEU initiative?
17. 2.99 Rome 22nd Governing Council Klemens van de Sand Assistant President IFAD PD
In the next Lome Convention, the European Union is making aid to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)
countries more and more dependent on observance of democracy and human rights: given that Asia still has many
authoritarian and non-accountable regimes, a principal origin of the current crisis, is IFAD, for its next replenishment,
seeking cooperation from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, an office created since IFAD was founded, to
help ensure that your loans make a more lasting contribution to the rural poor?
17. 2.99 Rome (2) 22nd Governing Council Bahman Mansuri Deputy Assistant President IFAD PD
IFAD was the first international agency to offer help to newly autonomous Palestine: given the OPEC-inspired
origin of the Fund, do you have similar contingency plans for the soon-to-be- autonomous Kosova, another poor Moslem
country? And will Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestine Authority, who is speaking in FAO tomorrow morning on the
Bethlehem 2000 project, come here in the afternoon to thank IFAD for its early support?
8. 2.99 London XI Intntl Food Show (2) Nick Brown Minister of Food United Kingdom FR
On going around this exhibition, have you seen any low-cost foods, British or otherwise, which you think would
be of special relevance in tackling hunger and malnutition in the third world?
Several decades ago Britain had a Ministry of Food separate from Agriculture & Fisheries, a situation which still
pertains in many other countries: in setting up the new Foods Standards Agency, did you think again of making a separate
Ministry of Food?
20.12.98 London Iraq postwar briefing(2) Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom FR
In the past four days, and in your statement now, you have gone out of your way to point out that it is not the
people of Iraq, but only the regime, which we were attacking: do you plan to follow this up by compensating the widows
and orphans of the civilian breadwinners who have accidentally been killed, and by rehabilitating the Iraqi girls and boys
who may be crippled for life?
And, in past interventions against other murderous regimes, such as in Afghanistan and Somalia, the Western
democracies have often left the civilian population in anarchy or even worse off: for Iraq, a cradle of Western civilization
and a modern state created by Britain, when the 62-year-old Saddam Hussein passes from the scene, do we have ready a
reconstruction programme as generous as that offered to Hitler's Germany in 1945?
11.12.98 Vienna European Council Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Prime Minister Denmark PD
The 150th anniversary of Denmark's first liberal constitution falls on 5 June 1999, at about the same time as the
Cologne European Council: are you planning any celebration on that occasion, not least among the new applicant countries
of Central and Eastern Europe, to help their citizens enjoy similar rights and responsibilities so long guaranteed to the
people of Denmark?
11.12.98 Vienna European Council Goran Persson Prime Minister Sweden PD
Yesterday 10 December marked not only the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896 and the day
subsequently used for awarding the Nobel Prizes, but for the past 50 years it has also been known as Human Rights Day:
the last Nobel Prize to be created was in 1968, that for Economics, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bank of
Sweden: can you suggest the names of any Swedish institution, business, or individual prepared to donate the $20-30
million needed to endow a seventh Nobel prize, for Human Rights? And this in time for the centenary of the Awards, and
the Swedish Presidency of the European Union, in 2001?
12.12.98 Vienna European Council Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD
First an irreverent question: given the Prime Minister's wellknown determination to modernize Britain's
institutions, has it yet occurred to him, amid Vienna's imperial splendour, to convene future UK summits, and their
attendant press briefings, in Buckingham Palace? or Balmoral? More seriously, with the meeting last week in St Malo
with France to articulate a common European defence policy, is Britain thinking of giving a further lead to other European
democracies by renaming the Ministry of Defence, which was once the Ministry of War, the Ministry of De-fence and
Peacekeeping, and so better reflect Britain's and Europe's, current and future, strategic responsibilities?
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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country *FR/PD #Followup
11.12.98 Vienna European Council Flavio Cotti President Switzerland PD
At the European summit in Luxembourg last December I raised with that country's Prime Minister the possibility
of the five one-time neutral countries of the European Union, Austria, Finland, Ireland and Sweden as well as
Luxembourg, forming a joint mission to inform the people of Switzerland that your own neutrality and your unique form of
direct democracy - not to mention that on 1 January 1999 Switzerland will become the first country in continental Europe
to have in Ruth Dreifuss a woman President - that these should be considered an asset rather than a hindrance to political
membership of Europe and so closing the hole in the centre of the Union: Jean-Claude Juncker replied yes to my question,
and I would now ask if you will use the good offices of these countries to promote the new bilateral agreement among the
Swiss people?
11.12.98 Vienna European Council Jose Maria Gil-Robles President Euro Parliament PD
On 1 December you again hosted a regular meeting of the presiding officers of the national parliament of the 15
countries of the European Union but, as you know, several countries, such as Spain, Germany, Belgium and, soon, the
United Kingdom, have important regional parliaments, some of them representing more people than, say Luxembourg or
Denmark: given the growing importance of regional democracy in Europe, do you plan to convene a meeting of the
presiding officers of the regional parliaments of Europe?
17.11.98 London World Travel Market (2) Louis D'Amore Convenor Peace thro Tourism Glasgow PD
Now that you will call at Glasgow next October the Third Global Conference on Peace through Tourism, have
you yet identified any Quakers or other peacemakers who have lived or worked in the Scottish city? And, given that today
is the anniversary of the massacre in Luxor of 58 tourists, will the Glasgow Conference make a start on recording the
names of civilians who have lost their lives, if not in the cause of peace, then through participation in the very peaceful
activity of tourism?
17.11.98 London World Travel Market Naabeel Kassis Minister Bethlehem 2000 Palestine PD
It is understandable that you are drawing special attention to the Nativity in Bethlehem during the year 2000 but,
as you know, it is 25 December 2001 which really marks the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus: will you use that
occasion to draw attention to the special needs of infants and children in Palestine?
16.11.98 London World Travel Market Dawid de Villiers Dep Sec Gen World Tourism Orgn PD
Tomorrow 17 November is the first anniversary of the massacre at Luxor of 58 tourists: last year I asked
Geoffrey Lipman, President of the World Tourism Council, if he would a systematic effort to list every year the names of
tourists who had been killed, kidnapped or imprisoned simply because they were tourists, and he said he would discuss that
possibility with the WTO: what are you doing to remember the innocent civilians who die every year in the name of
tourism?
6.10.98 Washington Emerging Markets Forum Hamza R Zayyad Chair Public Enterprises Nigeria PD
Two questions, first an irreverent one: is there any plan to privatize the Nigerian military, and sell off some of the
corrupt elements, say, to Britain, to pay off your foreign debt? More seriously, given the role of women in keeping the
basic Nigerian economy growing, while the commanding heights were taken over by commanding officers, are you making
a special effort, as was done in the Czech Republic recently, to make sure that Nigerian women can optimize their
wellknown entrepreneurial skills in a new civilian economy?
6.10.98 Washington Global Economic Outlook Giles Keating Chief Economist Credit Suisse Boston PD
With this meeting hosted by a Swiss bank, how far do you consider the Davos economic forums, which bring
together both politicians and bankers, will become as important as IMF meetings in tackling global economic problems?
5.10.98 Washington XI Brazil Economic Conf Gustavo Franco President Central Bank Brazil PD
Given that Brazil has the world's 8th largest GNP and, after India and the US, is the world's 3rd most populous
democracy, do you plan to use the 500th anniversary on (26 January) 2000 of your discovery to press for entry into that
year's summit in Japan, and so help make the Group of Seven, more representative, more democratic, and more
responsible?
4.10.98 Washington Per Jacobsson Lecture Peter Sutherland Chair Goldman Sachs International -
At G7 Summits over the past ten years, from Toronto to Birmingham, I have asked various heads of government
as to what plans they have for making the Group of Seven more representative, for example by inviting other rich or
populous democracies such as Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, India, or the smaller democracies which 11 times out of
15 hold the Presidency of the European Council, but the G7 has become almost as ossified as the UN Security Council:
other than the Globalization Summit you have just suggested, or even for that, from where do you think will come a new
initiative for a more representative political-economic association of the major democracies, both rich and poor?
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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country *FR/PD #Followup
29. 6.98 London (2) Project Parity Planathon Lord Neill Chair Cte on Standards in Public Life PD
On political integrity in Britain, in 1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a stroke and was incapacitated for
six months, a fact hidden from the public: could something similar happen again? Also, it is now 16 years since 1982
when a high-ranking minister last resigned on a matter of principle, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington for not having
anticipated the invasion of the Falklands: since then there have been equally costly blunders, as over the poll tax, leaving
the Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday 16 September 1992, and mad cow disease: does the existence of the
Neill (ex-Nolan) Committee make it more likely that high-ranking ministers will accept responsibility for such failures in
future?
16. 6.98 Cardiff European Council Jacques Santer President European Commission PD
Kosova with its two million people has nearly five times Luxembourg's [420 000] population, yet Luxembourg
has now enjoyed independence for nearly two centuries: why is it that Europe is still insisting on the integrity of federal
Serbia in 1998, in much the same way it insisted on the integrity of federal Yugoslavia in 1991, despite the likelihood that,
as long as the evil Milosevic and his generals remain in power, they will cause similar human suffering among our fellow
Europeans?
16. 6.98 Cardiff European Council Nelson Mandela President South Africa PD
In 1989 when the Romanian people rose up against a corrupt dictatorship, Britain withdrew the honour
previously conferred on Ceaucescu: does South Africa plan to withdraw the honour you conferred recently on General
Suharto of Indonesia, and perhaps give it instead to your fellow dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Jose-Ramos Horta of
East Timor?
16. 6.98 Cardiff European Council (2) Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD
Is Tony Blair's invitation to Nelson Mandela to the European Council symbolic of his expectation that sooner
rather than later Britain will be the first country in Europe to appoint an able black Cabinet Minister? Or will we first
have to wait till England has a black cricket captain?
(on 15.6.98) May I renew a query made earlier in Amsterdam and Luxembourg, whether the final Declaration of
this Summit will be issued also in Welsh, whether or not it is an official European language, but more in appreciation of the
outstanding hospitality and generosity shown by our Cardiff hosts?
15. 6.98 Cardiff European Council Jaime Gama Foreign Minister Portugal PD
Thanks to the initiative of President Mandela, who is today in Cardiff, Mozambique is now a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations: for the Ibero-American Summit in Oporto in October, do you have any plans to invite
Mozambique and other lusophone African democracies, both to encourage those peoples on the path to freedom, and to
highlight the fact that a large proportion of both hispanophone and lusophone peoples in South America originate from
Africa, as is now only too evident from the Brazilian and other football teams? And for the Lusophone Summit in Cape
Verde in July 1999 do you plan to invite as observers both East Timor, and Goa?
15. 6.98 Cardiff European Council Jim Cloos Spokesperson European Commission PD
Does the Commission President Jacques Santer plan tomorrow to discuss with President Mandela what more
Europe and Africa might jointly do to relieve the hunger of the 600 000 persons starving to death in southern Sudan?
15. 6.98 Cardiff European Council Lena Hjelm-Wallen Foreign Minister Sweden PD
With 1998 marking both the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia and the 50th anniversary [on 17
September] of the assassination of the peacemaker Folke Bernadotte, and given Sweden's outstanding peacekeeping efforts
in at least the past fifty years, are you planning to give a lead to other European and world democracies by renaming your
Ministry of Defence the Ministry of Defence and Peacekeeping?
12. 6.98 London (2) G8 Foreign Ministers Madeleine Albright Secretary of State U S FR
On Kosova, from 1992 onward four countries declared themselves independent of federal Yugoslavia, and their
independence was sooner or later recognized: when Kosova or, for that matter, Montenegro, declares itself independent of
Serbia, will that make it legally easier for the US and NATO to come to their aid, somewhat, say, as 222 years ago next
month, French and Polish soldiers came to the aid of the American colonies?
With the collapse of soviet communism and the consequent growing irrelevance of India's leadership role in the
Non-Aligned Movement, have the foreign ministers appreciated that one reason for the recent nuclear explosions may have
been India's desire to reassert its voice in international affairs: given that its wouldbe accession to the P5 in the UN
Security Council has now been blocked for seven years, would it not be good if the more flexible Group of Eight were to
open its membership to India, the world's most populous democracy, just as here it has invited to this meeting non-nuclear
Argentina, Brazil and South Africa?
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12. 6.98 London G8 Foreign Ministers Robin Cook Foreign Secretary United Kingdom FR
This meeting was originally called to discuss South Asian nuclearization, yet it also took up the crisis in Kosova:
today is also the fifth anniversary of the aborted democratic elections in Nigeria: did the foreign ministers consider a
declaration in support of the Nigerian citizens who have gone on strike and on the front line of democracy today?
17. 5.98 Birmingham 24th G8 Summit Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD
On Northern Ireland, now that President Clinton will definitely not go there before the 22 May referendum, are
you planning to surprise us with an eleventh-hour visit by the greatest of modern conciliators and Nobel Peace laureate
[and whose government has also hosted Irish conflict-resolution meetings], Nelson Mandela?
17. 5.98 Birmingham 24th G8 Summit Jacques Chirac President France PD
A Lyon en 1996 vous avez réfléchi publiquement que le Brésil serait un bon candidat pour se joindre aux G8: est
ce que la France, créatrice de cette réunion, pense inviter le Brésil en 2000, le 500me anniversaire de sa découverte, et
ceci même si le Brésil bat la France dans le Coupe Mondiale du Football cet été?
15. 5.98 Birmingham 24th G8 Summit (3) Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD
On India [and its recent nuclear tests], is any thought being given to a carrot rather than a stick approach, by
inviting the world's largest democracy to become a member of at least the G8 Political Forum?
With the Summit being held in the last three days of Christian Aid Week, and eight of the nine heads of
government here from Christian countries, will any Prime Minister propose a personalized G8 collection on behalf of
fellow Christians starving in Southern Sudan?
At this G8 summit Britain has followed the Commonwealth practice of having a retreat, but without the
compensating opportunity at a pre-lunch reception for several hundred journalists to talk with as many of the 54 heads of
government as wanted to meet the press, and at previous Euro socialist summits preceding European Councils we could
talk informally with heads of government or opposition leaders: it is too late now for us to chat up Yeltsin and Clinton, but
at the Cardiff summit in June, does Britain plan to provide an opportunity for journalists as a group to meet informally with
European leaders?
12. 5.98 Newcastle Euro Agri Ministers Jack Cunningham Minister of Agri Fish & Food UK PD
At this meeting there have been ministers from 15 of the world's 20 or 25 richest agricultural democracies: while
we have enjoyed and appreciated your hospitality, some 600 000 people are starving to death in the Southern Sudan and,
inasmuch it is a pastoral economy, most of the dying are girls, mothers and elderly women: during the past three days,
have you had the opportunity to consider what more Europe can do to help keep the people of Southern Sudan alive?
12. 5.98 Newcastle Euro Agri Ministers Franz Fischler Commissioner for Agriculture EC FR
Six years ago, at the Informal Meeting in Cambridge, I asked Agriculture Minister John Gummer whether Britain,
under its set-aside programme and with its role in the agricultural revolution of the 18th century, would take a lead in
setting up world heritage farms, on the analogy of what Unesco is doing for cultural and environmental sites: because he
turned up his nose at this question, somewhat as his daughter was to do at a later photo-opportunity, what I would ask now,
more modestly, given such attempts as those in Britain to preserve historic features under the Countryside Stewardship
Scheme, is whether the European Commission plans to dedicate one of its annual Architectural Heritage preservation
programmes to historical but disused agricultural buildings and sites, for example in environmentally fragile areas, rather
as in past years the Commission has restored theatres and religious buildings throughout the European Union?
9. 5.98 London G8 Foreign Ministers (2) Robin Cook Foreign Secretary United Kingdom FR
On Kosova, given Turkey's unique historic concern for ethnic Albanians, are you planning to invite Turkey to
join the six-member Contact Group on Kosova, and thus also decrease the sense of isolation felt by Turkey since the
European Conference in London in March?
And, now that we have a President of the European Parliament as feisty as, say, yourself, will Britain include Mr
Gil-Robles in the European Union delegation to the G8 Summit in Birmingham next week?
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9. 5.98 London G7 Finance Ministers Gordon Brown Chancellor of the Exchequer UK FR
Do you plan to write the Ten Key Principles of International Financial Information Exchange into the revised
Lome Convention governing European aid to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries?
2. 5.98 Brussels EMU Council Jose Maria Gil-Robles President Euro Parliament PD
With the introduction of the Euro notes, the European Parliament will disappear from the only banknote now
portraying it, the 5000 francs of Luxembourg: is there still time for the 500 Euro note, instead of bearing the doors and
windows of an artist's imagination, to portray the new building of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and this as a
symbol of democratic control of the new Euro monetary system?
10. 4.98 Windhoek 99th Inter-Parlt Conf Miguel Angel Martinez President IPU Council PD
Now that Britain has emulated Spain in creating new parliaments or assemblies for Scotland and Wales, do you
think the time will come during your mandate when such important regional parliaments can become full members of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union somewhat, say, as Quebec and New Brunswick, along with Canada, are full members of the
Francophone Community?
27. 3.98 Cape Town US President Visit (2) William M Daley Secretary of Commerce US FR
In the past ten years there has grown up a Pacific Rim community, and last year an Indian Ocean Rim association
was started: during this visit has there been any discussion of an Atlantic Rim partnership as a modern trading initiative,
both in its own right and as a humane counterweight to the Atlantic slave trade of past centuries?
(sent on ) In 1997 when the President was reported as pondering a public apology for slavery, it was calculated
in Time magazine of 30 June that, to make such an apology effective, compensation would amount to $24 quadrillion ($24
000 000 000 000): in our own time the Cold War, while making the North Atlantic safe for democracy and prosperity,
kept much of the South Atlantic bound by repression and poverty: could you as Commerce Secretary, perhaps along with
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, calculate the economic losses created by the Cold War for the great majority of South
Africans, so that future trade and partnership agreements are set in a fair historic context?
12. 3.98 London European Conference (2) Ivan Kostov Prime Minister Bulgaria FR
Given Bulgaria's bridge-building role between Turkey and the rest of Europe, and Turkey's unique historic
concern for ethnic Albanians, has Bulgaria been pressing for Turkey to be invited to future six-member Contact Group
meetings on Kosova?
Has Bulgaria and your four southeast neighbours forewarned the European Union on contingency measures
against possible Serbian ethnic cleansing of Moslems in Sandjak, and Hungarians in Voivodina?
12. 3.98 London European Conference Robin Cook Foreign Secretary United Kingdom FR
Is consideration being given to making Kosova a trust community of the European Union, somewhat, say, as
Memel and Danzig enjoyed special status for twenty years under the Eurocentric League of Nations, with special European
protection of Serbian historic sites in Kosova?
22. 2.98 London (2) G7 Finance Ministers Robert Rubin Treasury Secretary US FR
(sent on) Yesterday you answered my question on democracy so refreshingly that I would ask another about the
world crisis overhanging this meeting: in 1993 and again last December the UN passed a resolution urging all countries to
revive and observe the Olympic Truce: has the holding of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, in a G7 country, which ended
today, been a factor in the US not undertaking military action during this past fortnight?
At its Houston Summit in July 1990 the Group of Seven designated the 1990s a Decade of Democracy, but we are
still shoring up corrupt military dictatorships: in what way do Western efforts today to shore up the Suharto regime differ
from our support to Chiang Kaishek fifty years ago, apart from the beneficial one that, in Indonesia, there is a civilian
democratic opposition ready to take over?
21. 2.98 London G7 Finance Ministers Gordon Brown Chancellor of the Exchequer UK PD
On promoting integrity and fighting corruption (para 11 of Declaration), and given the Pergau dam scandal in the
last government which persisted in order to facilitate British arms sales to Malaysia, do the new export credits and other
G7 aid to South East Asia prohibit military and other authoritarian governments in the region from reviving their
economies by buying even more arms?
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21. 2.98 London G7 Finance Ministers Fumihiko Kato Chair Export Insurance MITI Japan FR
James Harmon Chair Export-Import Bank US
Some five years ago Japan became the first G7 country to make development aid conditional on reduction of
military expenditures, when it stopped aid to Burma but continued it to Indonesia: given that so many of the current
problems in Indonesia are due to military corruption and nepotism, is Japan making export credits in any way conditional
on the civilianization of the government of Indonesia, and does Japan, or for that matter the US, have contingency plans to
stop credits immediately if, as in 1966, the Indonesian military begins scapegoating and slaughtering its Chinese minority?
12. 2.98 Rome (4) IFAD Governing Council Jacques Diouf Director-General FAO PD
On Political Integrity, Inter Press reported at the time of the your 1993 election to FAO that the Australian
government had spent $1 000 000 promoting your opponent: how much did you, the Government of Senegal, the
Organization of African Unity and the Organization of the Islamic Conference spend on your election in 1993?
On Development through Democracy, have you forsworn any future plans to associate human rights abusers
such as President Castro of Cuba and president Omar Bongo of Gabon with FAO's Food for All ideals?
11. 2.98 Rome (2) IFAD Governing Council T Van der Pluijm Director Near East/Africa IFAD FR
At least 6 of the 33 countries listed in document GC 21/L.6 as Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs)
qualifying for the new IFAD initiative of debt relief, those of Sierra Leone, Togo, Guinea, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea and
Myanmar (Burma), are military dictatorships or military dominated: is IFAD, or the World Bank, in any way following
the example of Japan, and making new aid or debt reduction conditional on reducing military expenditure?
Having nearly forty years ago worked on behalf of Palestinian refugees, I am very pleased that IFAD has
identified the void blocking aid to the State of Palestine, and is moving to fill it: another void which will become more and
more apparent in 1998 is that of Western Sahara, where a long-delayed plebiscite should soon take place: does IFAD have
contingency plans to come to the aid of Western Sahara in as rapid a time as the four months you took for Gaza in 1993?
4. 2.98 London UK Territories Confrnce Pamela Johnson Premier Bermuda and Others FR
As someone who, forty years ago, worked on behalf of Chinese and Russian refugees in Hong Kong, I was
pleased when, in the 1980s, a more wealthy Hong Kong offered shelter to many boat refugees from Vietnam: today, some
Overseas Territories also have high standards of living, and I would ask whether the governments and voluntary agencies
in, say, the Caymans, Turks & Caicos and the Virgins have accepted systematic responsibilities to refugees or migrants
from Cuba and Haiti; and given that the UN has designated 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers, does any
Caribbean territory or Bermuda have plans to send volunteers to, or receive students from, the new democracies and
original homelands of Africa?
30. 1.98 London EC briefing Jacques Santer President European Commission PD
The critical criterion for entry into the European Union is democracy, yet of the 70 or so ACP recipient countries
some 20, including Togo which has given its name to the Lome Convention, are military or other dictatorships: are there
any plans, when the Convention is renegotiated later in 1998, to suspend such dictatorships, not from emergency aid, but
from longer-term forms of cooperation?
13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Jean-Claude Juncker Prime Minister Luxembourg PD
In 1948 Luxembourg gave up its traditional neutrality to join various Western alliances, but there is still a big
hole in the centre of the European Union, that of Switzerland: is Luxembourg in any way joining up with the other once
neutral countries, Ireland, Austria, Sweden and Finland, to convince the people of Switzerland that they have much to
gain by filling out the centre of the European Union?
13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD
Next May, during Britain's Presidency, will see the 50th anniversary of Europe's first ever citizen's congress, that
called on 8 May 1948 in the Hague by one of your heroes, Winston Churchill: will you rise to the occasion with another
citizen-friendly act, by accepting the challenge which the Dutch confessed to failing at the European Council in
Amsterdam last June, to use the exceptional drafting abilities, both of the Foreign Office and the Plain English Campaign,
to consolidate the current hodge-podge of European treaties, created by "High Contracting Parties", into one citizen-
friendly document, beginning with "We the Peoples of Europe"?
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13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Guntar Krasts Prime Minister Latvia FR
(By way of introduction, may I say that on 10 February 1995 I had the surprise pleasure, during a meeting on
Equality in Strasbourg, of taking part in the welcome of Latvia into the Council of Europe, and that I hope one day to do
the same for the European Union.) With the 80th anniversaries in 1998 of the independence of Lithuania, Estonia and
Latvia, do you have any plans, either for 14 or 24 February or for 18 November, to invite the heads of state or government
of major European countries, so that they can see for themselves how well you have taken up again the march to Baltic
democracy begun in 1918, but which Western weakness allowed to be overtaken in 1939 by fifty years of nazi and soviet
dictatorship?
13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council (2) Janez Drnovsek Prime Minister Slovenia FR
How far do you consider OECD membership important for Slovenia and other EU applicant countries? Now that
Montenegro has a new democracy-oriented President, do you plan to visit that country also, or establish other ties?
13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Romano Prodi Prime Minister Italy FR
During this Council has Italy received any new support from the European Union, in particular from Britain and
France, for its efforts to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, not least because, certainly since 1961, Italy
has contributed far more personnel and supplies to UN peacekeeping and security than Germany, the other EU wouldbe
member, and more recently, during the four-year Bosnian war, served effectively as Europe's, Nato's and the UN's aircraft
carrier?
13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Lamberto Dini Foreign Minister Italy FR
Now that at least five countries of the European Union, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Greeks, hold
biennial summits or world councils of their linguistic communities or diasporas, are there any plans for similar reunions of
leaders and citizens from "big" Italy and the many Little Italys throughout the world to highlight the contributions which
Italians everywhere are making to world civilization?
12.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Viktor Klima Chancellor Austria FR
Will Austria use the opportunity of its Presidency in 1998, especially now that Germany is moving its capital from
Bonn to Berlin, to disperse further the centre of European gravity, away from the current Rhine triangle, so that parts at
least of existing institutions are relocated more equitably in Central and Eastern Europe?
12.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Yves-Thibault de Silguy Finance Commissioner EC PD
The advent of the Euro banknotes in 2002 will see the disappearance from circulation of the only banknote
featuring European Union buildings, the 5000 franc note of Luxembourg:
is the time not opportune to reconsider the point I raised at the Dublin summit on 13 December 1996, which first
flummoxed and then silenced the then EMI president, that if the 500 Euro banknote had to show a modern building, it
might best portray, not a figment of the designer's imagination, but the Human Rights building in Strasbourg, which is a
symbol both of outstanding architecture and the highest European ideals? Or will this be another case of the EMI and
Commission being too incestuous to accept a suggestion which does not originate with the Eurocratic elite?
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12.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD
Does the Prime Minister plan to gladden the hearts of the his fellow heads of government, and minority-language
speakers everywhere, by informing them that at least the final Declaration of the Cardiff Summit next June will be issued
simultaneously in Welsh?
12.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Jose Maria Gil-Robles President Euro Parliament PD
There has been much talk recently of standardizing or, in most cases, raising the salaries of M E Ps, but are there
also plans to raise their qualifications, and thus the quality of dialogue, so that persons candidating themselves in 1999 or
2004 to receive an annual salary of $140 000, are at least required, say, to speak a second European language, if not four
like yourself?
17.11.97 London World Travel Market Ivo Armenco Minister for Tourism Montenegro FR
Having hesitated from paying a second visit to Montenegro because of the warlike actions from 1989 onward by
President Milosevic, may I ask, now that you have a more democracy-oriented President, how far your tourist operations
will become independent of those of Serbia? and how far do you consider Montenegro isolated from possible future
trouble in Sandjak and Kosova?
30.10.97 London EuroCommission Briefing Hugo Paemen Head EC Delegation Washington FR
There are many good things which Europeans do which Americans could well emulate, and vice-versa: one good
thing which the US has been doing over the past two decades is to have their State Department make annual reports on how
far aid-recipients respect and promote human rights, democracy, women's advancement and counter-terrorism: what have
you done to persuade the Commission, Belgium, and other EU countries to make similar reports and coordinate aid policies
with US democratic ideals?
19.11.97 London Fifth Atlantic Council Sir George Young Shadow Defence Secretary UK FR
We have spent the last five years planning Nato's expansion eastward to new, non-Atlantic democracies, but what
thought has been given to offering peace and security, for example in Partnership for Peace operations, to the new
democracies on the Atlantic itself, such as South Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean, all of which sent troops to fight, and
die, for Europe's freedom during World War II?
17.11.97 London World Travel Market Geoffrey Lipman President World Tourism Council FR
Recently the travel industry has associated itself with both environment and peace initiatives, but there may be a
more basic challenge not being taken up, perhaps best described by analogy, that of Freedom House and others which every
year list journalists who are imprisoned and killed: is any tourist body keeping track of innocent travellers who are
imprisoned by authoritarian governments or taken hostage by terrorist groups? and is any body drawing up a world charter
on the rights and duties of tourists? and are there procedures for suspending from the World Travel & Tourism Council or
the World Tourism Organization those member countries which put tourist lives at risk?
27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Chief Emeka Anyaoku Commonwealth Sec-General PD CHOGM-1
Has any consideration been given to the enhancing the moral stature of the Commonwealth by inviting
outstanding leaders such as President Mandela of South Africa, or President K R Narayanan of India, to serve as Deputy
Heads of the Commonwealth on an ad personam basis during their terms of office?
27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD CHOGM-1
And similarly, is there any move to ensure a smooth transition of duties by inviting Prince Charles to become
Joint Head of the Commonwealth, to share some of the more onerous tasks as the Queen grows older but has not yet gone
to heaven?
27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Chief Emeka Anyaoku Commonwealth Sec-General FR CHOGM-1
Does the holding of this meeting in Edinburgh in any way presage the admission of Scotland to the
Commonwealth in its own right, rather, say, as Quebec and New Brunswick are full members of the Francophone
Community, or the Aland and Faroe Islands members of the Nordic Council?
27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom FR CHOGM-1
Or, given that you, the Chancellor and the Foreign and Defence Secretaries are all Scots or with strong Scottish
connections, are you waiting till England applies to become a full member of the Commonwealth?
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27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom FR CHOGM-1
After chairing this meeting Britain will soon host another summit, that of the Group of Eight industrial
democracies in Birmingham next May: in 1976 the US host President Ford welcomed to the then G6 a second
Commonwealth industrialized democracy, Canada: does Britain plan next May to invite to this world forum a third
Commonwealth industrial democracy, Australia, both in its own right as a huge country with a high per capita GDP of
some US$ 18 000, and as representative of the 10 other Commonwealth democracies in the South Pacific?
27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Chief Emeka Anyaoku Commonwealth Sec-General FR CHOGM-1
Now that the Commonwealth appears to have raised admission standards by deferring the admission of Yemen
which, according to the New York-based Freedom House, a world authority on political rights and civil liberties, is
somewhat freer than Cameroon admitted in 1995, will the Commonwealth similarly raise existing membership standards
by, for example, suspending Kenya which has the same ratings for political rights and civil liberties as does suspended
Nigeria?
25.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Nelson Mandela President South Africa FR
For many years the Commonwealth promoted and safeguarded the independence of Botswana, Lesotho,
Swaziland and Namibia in an attempt to keep them out of the clutches of an apartheid regime: now that the danger is over,
and given the poverty of at least two of the four countries, is there any movement to create a new political union of
Southern Africa based on democracy and analogous, say to the Commonwealth of Australia (created in 1900)?
24.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Chief Emeka Anyaoku Commonwealth Sec-General FR CHOGM-1
In 18 months' time, on 31 March 1999, we shall reach the 50th anniversary of the Commonwealth's diminution by
one, when Newfoundland joined up with Canada: how far is the vulnerability of many small states dependent on the
considerable expense of financing sovereignty? And what is the Commonwealth doing to introduce development
economies of scale by encouraging political federation, either among small states themselves, or in linkage with larger
Commonwealth countries, not so much for countries like Malta and the Maldives which have a long independent cultural
history (and whose representatives have just spoken) but, for example, among the landlocked countries of Southern
Africa?
23.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit Michael Fathers Commonwealth Spokesperson FR
At the Commonwealth meeting in Cyprus in 1992 I asked whether, after the 1 July 1997 handover, Hong Kong
would at least be able to take part in the 1998 Commonwealth Games: what links does the Commonwealth, as distinct
from member countries, plan to maintain with Hong Kong?
23. 9.97 Hong Kong Emerging Markets Forum Fritz Du Bois Chef de Cabinet Finance Peru FR
What direct benefits has Peru gained, or does it hope to gain, from APEC, the Pacific Rim Community, in
addition to the current political links with Japan?
23. 9.97 Hong Kong Emerging Markets Forum Gustavo Franco President Central Bank Brazil FR
Would Brazil gain by taking a lead in creating an Atlantic Rim Community to include the new democracies of
Africa, given the links of language, culture, and the historic transportation to Brazil of some 4 000 000 Africans?
22. 9.97 Hong Kong X Brazil Economic Conf Pedro Sampaio Malan Finance Minister Brazil FR
At the G7 Summit in Lyon in June 1996 I raised with President Chirac the possibility of expanding the Group of
Seven to embrace other major industrial democracies, and the first country he mentioned as a possible new member was
Brazil: what is Brazil doing to join such a body or the OECD, and so become again a part of the first world as it was, say,
in the 1940s when Brazil was the only country in South America to send troops to fight, and die, for Europe's freedom?
21. 9.97 Hong Kong Per Jacobsson Lecture Joseph Yam Chief Executive HK Monetary Authority -
Do you expect that eventually Hong Kong will become the financial capital of China, analogous to the ways in
which, say, Bombay, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, New York, Toronto or Sydney have become, or remained, financial capitals
of their countries in parallel with other cities which are political capitals?
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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country *FR/PD #Followup
11. 3.99 London Turkey & Nato Kevin Tebbit Permanent Secretary Defence UK FR
10. 3.99 London Nato at 50 - RUSI George Robertson Sec State for Defence UK FR/PD
" " " " " Strobe Talbott Deputy Secretary of State USA FR
" " " " " Jose Cutileiro Sec Gen Western European Union FR/PD
17. 2.99 Rome 22nd Governing Council Klemens van de Sand Assistant President IFAD PD
" " " " " (2) Bahman Mansuri Deputy Assistant President IFAD PD
8. 2.99 London XI Intntl Food Show (2) Nick Brown Minister of Food United Kingdom FR
20.12.98 London Iraq postwar briefing(2) Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom FR
11.12.98 Vienna European Council Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Prime Minister Denmark PD EC9-98
" " " " Goran Persson Prime Minister Sweden PD EC9-98
" " " " Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD EC9-98
" " " " Flavio Cotti President Switzerland PD EC9-98
" " " " Jose Maria Gil-Robles President Euro Parliament PD EC9-98
17.11.98 London World Travel Market (2) Louis D'Amore Convenor Peace thro Tourism Glasgow PD
" " " " " Naabeel Kassis Minister Bethlehem 2000 Palestine PD
16.11.98 " " " " Dawid de Villiers Dep Sec Gen World Tourism Orgn PD
6.10.98 Washington Emerging Markets Forum Hamza R Zayyad Chair Public Enterprises Nigeria PD
6.10.98 " Global Economic Outlook Giles Keating Chief Economist Credit Suisse Boston PD
5.10.98 " Emerging Markets Forum Gustavo Franco President Central Bank Brazil PD
4.10.98 " Per Jacobsson Lecture Peter Sutherland Chair Goldman Sachs International -
29. 6.98 London (2) Project Parity Planathon Lord Neill Chair Cte on Standards in Public Life PD
16. 6.98 Cardiff European Council Jacques Santer President European Commission PD EC8-98
" " " " Nelson Mandela President South Africa PD
" " " " (2) Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD EC8-98
15. 6.98 " " " Jaime Gama Foreign Minister Portugal PD
" " " " Jim Cloos Spokesperson European Commission PD
" " " " Lena Hjelm-Wallen Foreign Minister Sweden PD
12. 6.98 London (2) G8 Foreign Ministers Madeleine Albright Secretary of State U S FR
" " " " Robin Cook Foreign Secretary United Kingdom FR
17. 5.98 Birmingham 24th G8 Summit Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD
" " " Jacques Chirac President France PD
15. 5.98 " " (3) Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD
12. 5.98 Newcastle Euro Agri Ministers Jack Cunningham Minister of Agri Fish & Food UK PD
" " " " Franz Fischler Commissioner for Agriculture EC FR
9. 5.98 London G8 Foreign Ministers (2) Robin Cook Foreign Secretary United Kingdom FR
" " G7 Finance Ministers Gordon Brown Chancellor of the Exchequer UK FR
2. 5.98 Brussels EMU Council Jose Maria Gil-Robles President Euro Parliament PD
10. 4.98 Windhoek 99th Inter-Parlt Conf Miguel Angel Martinez President IPU Council PD
27. 3.98 Cape Town US President Visit (2) William M Daley Secretary of Commerce US FR
12. 3.98 London European Conference (2) Ivan Kostov Prime Minister Bulgaria FR
" " " " Robin Cook Foreign Secretary United Kingdom FR
21. 2.98 London (2) G7 Finance Ministers Robert Rubin Treasury Secretary US FR
" " " " Gordon Brown Chancellor of the Exchequer UK PD
" " " " Fumihiko Kato Chair Export Insurance MITI Japan FR
12. 2.98 Rome (2) IFAD Governing Council Jacques Diouf Director-General FAO PD
11. 2.98 " (2) " " " T Van der Pluijm Director Near East/Africa IFAD FR
4. 2.98 London UK Territories Confrnce Pamela Johnson Premier Bermuda and Others FR
30. 1.98 London EC briefing Jacques Santer President European Commission PD
13.12.97 Luxembourg European Council Jean-Claude Juncker Prime Minister Luxembourg PD EC7-97
" " " " Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD EC7-97
" " " " Guntar Krasts Prime Minister Latvia FR
" " " " (2) Janez Drnovsek Prime Minister Slovenia FR
" " " " Romano Prodi Prime Minister Italy FR EC7-97
" " " " Lamberto Dini Foreign Minister Italy FR EC7-97
12.12.97 " " " Viktor Klima Chancellor Austria FR
" " " " Yves-Thibault de Silguy Finance Commissioner EC PD EC7-97
" " " " Alastair Campbell Government Spokesperson Britain PD EC7-97
" " " " Jose Maria Gil-Robles President Euro Parliament PD
19.11.97 London Fifth Atlantic Council Sir George Young Shadow Defence Secretary UK FR
17.11.97 London World Travel Market Geoffrey Lipman President World Tourism Council FR
" " " " " Ivo Armenco Minister for Tourism Montenegro FR
30.10.97 London EuroCommission Briefing Hugo Paemen Head EC Delegation Washington FR
27.10.97 Edinburgh Commonwealth Summit (4) Chief Emeka Anyaoku Commonwealth Secretary-General FR/PD CHOGM-1
" " " " (3) Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom FR/PD "
25.10.97 " " " Nelson Mandela President South Africa FR
23.10.97 " " " Michael Fathers Commonwealth Spokesperson FR
23. 9.97 Hong Kong Emerging Markets Forum Fritz Du Bois Chef de Cabinet Finance Peru FR
" " " " " " Gustavo Franco President Central Bank Brazil FR
22. 9.97 " " X Brazil Economic Conf Pedro Sampaio Malan Finance Minister Brazil FR
21. 9.97 " " Per Jacobsson Lecture Joseph Yam Chief Executive HK Monetary Authority -
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