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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSir Alec-Douglas-Home\nFebruary 12, 1974\n7:55 p.m.\nH: Well, we all stuck it ;out and said there must be a follow-up.\nK: I got the\nI knew the situation around 5:30, has it changed\nsince then. Well, why don't you tell me what it is.\nH: We met about, well it ended up about quarter past six. The position\nwe are all absolutely firm with the French is that there must be a\nfollowup on this conference. We simply could not tolerate failure.\nJobert sad they couldn't have a followup of any kind and we thought\nwe had better come back to the plenary as soon as we could. We\ndecided to meet as a committee at 10:00. But the way we feel on\nthis is that we are absolutely solid unless there is a followup, we\nwould in the plenary simply have to say we all agree to appoint\nofficials to a followup meeting and France will have to reserve its\nposition.\nK: That's tolerable.\nH: Jobert has gone back for instructions to Paris. It would be\nvery bad as you have said to have as an end a sort of washy formula,\na papered over thing.\nK: We will accept nothing that has not previously been accepted by\nthe European Community. We will not make a deal with Jobert\nand then push the Community.\nH: You have to tough with Jobert.\nK: Let me tell you, he said it would be ok to have a group working on\nR&D and\non what else\non conservation.\nH: Yes.\nK: But not to prepare anything, not to go beyond a very strict\ntechnical thing. He would be prepared to have a Council of Ministers\nat the OECD where France would then give assurances to vote for\nthe establishment of a working group. The trouble with that is\nif this conference, representing the OECD and 85% of the world's\nenergy consuming nations can agree on nothing mar e than OECD\nMinisterial meeting and then makes a decision it hasn't made with\nthe Ministerial group plus about 6 other small countries, that is\njust not acceptable. We would be prepared to have the conference\nmake the decisions later, to have some, or most of it taken over"
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