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Economy: FCO telegram 1 to UKE Washington (“OECD WP3 meeting, Paris”) [record of conversation] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/726 f2
Editorial comments:

Known simply as ‘WP3’, the body in question is the OECD’s Economic Policy Committee Working Party No.3 on Policies for the Promotion of Better International Payments Equilibrium. It was established in the early 1960s, an early initiative in international policy cooperation. The British representative on this occasion was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Kit McMahon. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here. Read other documents selected from this file.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 7pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Monetary policy, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Asia), Foreign policy (International organizations)