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The report that they prepared was adopted by the Summit members and 

 subsequently ratified by the Williamsburg Summit process. Following 

 Williamsburg, it became clear that some response to the recommendation of 

 the Working Group was called for. Since the U.S. was the host country and 

 appropriate interest at a high level in government was called for, I invited 

 the Summit countries and the Commission of the European Communities to send 

 a high level political representative of their government to discuss the 

 actions that we might take to be responsive to the instructions that were 

 both explicit and implicit from the Williamsburg Summit. 



In particular, we were obliged to prepare a progress report on those 

 activities that we decided to have carried out and to report any progress to 

 the London Summit. Such a report was prepared containing a summary of 

 our first meeting of 29, 30 September 1983. 



The conclusions of the September meeting were not many but were significant 

 because of the composition of those drawing the conclusions. The Heads of 

 Delegation reported the conclusions back, not to their scientific community, 

 but to their political leaders. The conclusions were three: 



1. The representatives agreed that the fusion research and 

 development programs in progress in the United States, 

 Europe, Canada, and Japan are proceeding well with 

 reasonable expectations of success. 



2. Further, they agreed that international cooperation 

 through existing bilateral and multilateral agreements 

 has been excellent over the past 25 years and is 

 particularly desirable for fusion. 



3. Early joint planning of future developments is strongly 

 recommended. 



A mechanism for the joint planning was left to be set up following the 

 London Summit meeting if the conclusions of this group were endorsed by the 

 leaders. The group felt that any step beyond that of establishing the 

 planning mechanism could not be taken at that time because the exact 

 specifications for a cooperative venture depends upon the results from JET, 

 TFTR, and JT-60. 



The deliberations of 29 and 30 September served as the input for the report 

 of the Working Group on Technology, Growth and Employment to the London 

 Summit. In this report there are two items to which I wish to call 

 attention. One of these is Paragraph No. 22 of the report which states: 



"Effective cost sharing is becoming a more important element in 

 the construction of major new facilities. Collaborative projects 

 would benefit if coherent long-range plans for the construction 

 and sharing of facilities in our countries were to be developed." 



