File 2 - Briefing notes, background information, reports, 1993 Part 2

63 pp

Folder of photocopies of typed documentation "Department of Foreign Affairs Selected Briefing Material for week ending 19th February 1993", marked confidential. Consists of reports from various ambassadors and embassies to the Taoiseach including from Paris, France in relation to conversation with Commission President Delors regarding the currency situation and the EMU [Economic Monetary Union], and coverage of same in press; from Madrid, Spain regarding tensions between Delors and Spanish Economic Minister, Carlos Solchaga, following comments by Delors re preparedness of Member States for EMU; from Bonn, Germany relating to article in Bonn newspaper "Market battles in EMS leave scars - the Irish and Germans are no longer close"; from Bonn on conference on security policy in Munich and from The Hague, The Netherlands on reports on discussions on roles of NATO and WEU [Western European Union]; from EC Division and from Permanent Representation Brussels, Belgium in relation to EC [European Community] Enlargement and Trade; from Moscow, Russia in relation to implications of President Yeltsin's offer to abandon April referendum; from Ottawa, Canada on development of Canada / Russia relations; from Permanent Representative, New York, USA on briefing by Lord Owen on US policy in Bosnia; from Vienna, Austria on EC/Czech relations and from Bonn on visit of German Foreign Minister Kinkel to Prague; from Vienna on political developments in Hungary and from Madrid on Spanish reservations on UN Secretary General's proposals for a referendum in the western Sahara on terms considered favourable to Morocco.

Ref: P143/4/4/4/2

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