WESTERN EUROPE CANADA INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2001
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• Publication Date: January 13, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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WESTERN EUROPE - CANADA - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Western Europe Division, Office of Current Intelligence, with
occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
Bonn and West Berlin Officials Prepare for
Negotiations with the East Germans on
Improving Transit Facilities . . . . . . . .
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European Members Back Study of Producer
Investment Goals in TEA. . . . . . . . .
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Bonn and West Berlin Officials Prepare for
Negotiations with the East Germans on
Improving Transit Facilities
During the coming week, West German and West Berlin
officials hope to agree on which improvements in transit
facilities to seek when new negotiations begin
with the East Germans. The officials hope that if
nick progress can be made, the negotiations will
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Bonn is approaching the negotiations with a con-
siderable amount of optimism. Chancellor Schmidt set
the tone for government policy in his New Year's address
when he stated that there would be no worries for West
Berlin in 1975. He is insisting that the West German
negotiating position be both reasonable and flexible.
Egon Franke, Minister for Inner-German Affairs,
echoed this view last week when. he spoke confidently
of the prospects for success in the negotiations on
improving transit routes.
Today, Chancellor Schmidt meets with Franke and
the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Trans-
portation to determine whether Bonn or the West Berlin
Senat will negotiate with the East Germans. The
Western Allies have no strong preference on this
issue. Given the large number of projects to be dis-
cussed with the East Germans, the Federal Government
will probably decide to proceed on a case-by-case
basis.
On January 15, West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz
will attend a second inter-ministerial meeting to
decide which transit improvements to pursue in the
negotiations. There is already a consensus that two
of the highest priorities will be the reopening of the
Teltow Canal in Berlin and the construction of a
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Berlin-Hamburg Autobahn through Lower Saxony. West
German and West Berlin officials are much less inter
ested in Pankow's proposal to reconstruct the
Berlin-Helmstedt Autobahn, because the-Quadripartite
Agreement obligatesPankow to maintain existing transit
routes in good condition.
Once drafted, the list of priorities will be
submitted to the entire cabinet for approval about
January 20. The cabinet is expected to rubber-stamp
the proposals, enabling Bonn's representative in East
Berlin to begin negotiations with the East Germans
before the end of the month. (Confidential)
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Euro ea.n Members Back -Stud of Producer Investment
Goals in lEA
There is disappointment in the International
Energy Agency over a US decision not to provide
a paper on the investments of oil-producing countries
in the industrialized states. The energy agency's
executive director, the chairman of the standing
group on relations between producers and consumers,
and some of the members insist that the subject
will in any case be discussed at the standing
group's meeting Tuesday and Wednesday and they regret
the US decision not to have a financial expert
present:.
A Swiss official rejected the US decision
particularly sharply, pointing out that management
of producer country surpluses is, at this time, the
only point of common interest between producers and
consumers and that this topic must be discussed in
the agency if a producer-consumer dialogue is ever
to be achieved.
A US suggestion to establish a separate, ad
hoc group within the agency to discuss financial
issues related to the agency's work in parallel
with discussions in the IMF and the OECD was also
greeted unenthusiastically. The European members
are concerned that financial considerations would
thereby be divorced from the agency. Etienne
Davignon, the chairman of the energy agency's
board of governors, agreed that an ad hoc group
could be established but insisted it report to the
board of governors. Davignon emphasized that
financial issues must be discussed in the energy
agency framework lest energy policies in the agency's
member states develop in a disjointed fashion. The
Swiss official added that an attempt to expand the
agency's institutions so soon after its formation
might cause Bern some difficulties in gaining parlia-
mentary approval for Swiss membership in the agency.
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