1.   Good external relations will be vital because the Freie Akademie is poor.

2.   The scrupulous delimitation of state powers found no parallel in the conduct of external relations, which formed a permanent exception.

3.   Would-be practitioners of planning did not clearly understand the constraints imposed on their activities by external economic relations and pressures.

4.   Jacques Delors, the President of the European Commission, and Frans Andriessen, the EC Commissioner for external relations, also attended the meetings.

5.   While Singapore was enthusiastic, Malaysia remained cautious, and Indonesia called for a greater concentration on intra-ASEAN rather than external economic relations.

6.   It also proposed bilingual education in schools and the creation of a secretariat of external relations and an environmental agency.

7.   On external relations the heads of state and government adopted a declaration on the Soviet Union.