Bilderberg Meetings Conference Report 1988

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BIIDERBERG MEETINGS

TELFS-BUCHENCONFERENCE

3-5 June 1988

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VIL FUTURE STRATEGY OF TH E ALLIANCE

Working Paper . . . . .Introductory Remarks, I.Introductory Remarks, II.Introductory Remarks, III. .

Discussion. . . . . . . .

VIII. TH E GULF AND AFGHANISTAN

Working Paper. . . . .Introductory Remarks, I.Introductory Remarks, II.Introductory Remarks, III.Discussion.

CLOSING . . . .

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FOREWORD

This booklet is an account of the proceedings of the 1988 BilderbergMeeting at the Interalpen-Hotel T y r o ~ Telfs-Buchen, Austria. Workingpapers and introductory remarks are reported essentially as they werepresented, with minor editing. Remarks and interventions made in thediscussion sessions, as well as panelists' closing remarks, are organizedaccording to subject matter, and are not necessarily reported in the orderin which they were made, nor in their entirety.

Grant F. WinthropRapporteur

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INTRODUCTION

The thirty-sixth Bilderberg Meeting was held at the Interalpen-HotelTyrol, in Telfs-Buchen, Austria on June 3, 4, and 5, 1988. There were 116participants from 17 European countries, the United States, and Canada.They represented government, diplomacy, politics, business, law, labor,education, journalism, the military, and institutes specializing in national andinternational studies. All participants spoke in a personal capacity, not asrepresentatives of the governments or organizations to which they belonged.As is usual at Bilderberg Meetings, in order to permit frank and opendiscussion, no reporting of the conference proceedings took place.

Lord Roll of Ipsden, the Chairman of the Bilderberg Meetings, openedthe conference with a welcome to the participants and an exhortation thatthey remain in attendance for all three days. He stressed the importance ofkeeping the discussions tightly focused, and encouraged all participants tojoin in.

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VII. FUTURE STRATEGY OF TH E ALLIANCE

Moderator: Henry A. KissingerWorking Paper: F r a n ~ i sHeisbourgIntroductory Remarks: Hans van den Broek

Brent Scowcroft

VIII. TH E GULF AND AFGHANISTAN

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Moderator: Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.Working Paper: Gary G. SickIntroductory Remarks: James Craig

Olivier Roy

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

CHAIRMAN:Lord Roll of Ipsden*President, S.G. Warburg Group pk

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FO R EUROPE AND CANADAVictor Halberstadt*Professor of Public Finance, Leyden University

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR THE U.SA.Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.*Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War,Revolution and Peace, Stanford University

HONORARY TREASURERConrad J. Oort*Member of the Board, Algemene Bank Nederland N.V.;Professor of Money and Banking, University of Limburg

ITA GIOVANNI AGNELLI** President, Fiat S.p.A.DEN TAGE ANDERSEN* Managing Direc tor and Chief Executive, Den

Danske BankUSA DWAYNE 0. ANDREAS Chairman, Atcher-Daniels-Midland Company, Inc.GRB ANDREAS ANDRIANOPOULOS Mayor of Piraeus; Former Minister of CultureAUS HANNES ANDROSCH Former Chairman of the Managing Board of

Directors, Creditanstalt-Bankverein; FormerMinister of Finance; Former Vice Chancellor

USA GEORGE W. BALL** Former Under-Secretary of StatePO R FRANCISCO PINTO BALSEMAO* Director, Jamal Bxpresso; Former Prime

MinisterSPA ENRIQUE BARON Vice President, European Parliament; President,

European Movement; Former Minister of

TransportUSA JACK F. BENNEI T* Director and Senior Vice President, Exxon

Corporation; Former Under-Secretary of the

Treasury for Monetary AffairsNETI-I ERNST H. VANDERBEUGEL** Emeritus Professor of International Relations,

Leyden University; Director of CompaniesTU R SELAHATTIN BEY AZIT* Director of CompaniesICE BJORN BJARNASON Assistant Editor-in-Chief, "Morgunbladid"CAN CONRAD M. BLACK* Chairman, Atgus Corporation Ltd.USA SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK Foreign Affairs Officer, Departmen t of State;

Former Ambassador to the Republic of GhanaSWI FRAN Z BLANKART State Secretary for External Economic Affairs,

Federal Department of Public Economy

TU R ALI BOZBR Minister of State

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Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan was that Pakistan could become l e ~ sstable. There ' was a danger that the U.S. might cut off aid. A countrymanobserved that th e combination of non-proliferation sentiment, Indianpressure, Soviet complaints, and inconclusive civil war in Afghanistan could

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separate the American perception of its interests in the area from Pakistan'sperception of hers. I f the U.S. sooner or later abandoned or lost interest inPakistan, this would bolster the image of the U.S. as an unreliable, evendangerous friend.

In a French speaker's view, the Soviet Union could pursue twodifferent courses with respect to Pakistan. First, it could try to foster thedisintegration of Pakistan along ethnic lines by exploiting ethnic divisions.The pro-Soviet parties in Afghanistan were almost all ethnic parties. Second,the Soviets might try to befriend Pakistan. Western policy toward Pakistanshould be to press for democratization. I f the West was seen as supportingGeneral Zia, the opposition could become radicalized, and the army mightthen court the Russians. As for the nuclear issue, it was too late. Pakistancertainly already had the bomb. We could not let this determine the futureof Pakistan's relations with the West.

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CLOSING

In closing the conference, Lord Roll expressed his view that thestandards of the Bilderberg Meetings had once again been well maintained

and that the purposesof

Bilderberg had been well served.On behalf of the participants, Lord Roll thanked the Austrian hosts, inparticular Chancellor Vranitzky. He also thanked all those who had made theconference a success, including Dr. Georg Zimmer-Lehmann; Dr. DiemutKastner and her staff; the management and staff of the Interalpen-HotelTyrol; the security staff; the Bilderberg Secretariat; and the interpreters. Heacknowledged with gratitude the contribution of the working paper authors,the panelists, and the moderators.

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