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50. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Allen ) to the Counselor to the President ( Meese ), the White House Chief of Staff ( Baker ), and the White House Deputy Chief of Staff ( Deaver )

in October, replacing Venezuela which exercised an important moderating role at both the Nairobi and Paris conferences. Algeria, it will be recalled, is the principal advocate of reaching a decision on GNs at Cancun; — the African countries, led by Nigeria, and including the Ivory Coast, have met and agreed to push commodity agreements as a central issue at Cancun; — despite rejection of the idea at the Foreign Minister’s meeting, Mexico initiated a letter to all participants seeking to identify more detailed topics each head of government would address, undoubtedly in the hope of developing a…