Dutch get straight to the point

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Series Details 04/04/96, Volume 2, Number 14
Publication Date 04/04/1996
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Date: 04/04/1996

No one was expecting great developments on the Intergovernmental Conference at the summit. It was the time for set-piece declarations from each national delegation, even though everyone had heard it all before.

Dutch patience was the first to crack. Entre Nous is told that as the foreign ministers droned on, Holland's Hans Van Mierlo suggested a few around the table would benefit by keeping things a bit shorter. He didn't name names, but sources close to the summit say UK Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind did go on a bit...

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