Word: davignon
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Last week the Energy Coordinating Group, whose members include the U.S., Canada, Japan and nine Western European oil-importing nations, announced a major stride toward a unified, help-thy-friend energy policy. Meeting in Brussels under the chairmanship of Belgian Diplomat Vicomte Etienne Davignon, 41, a leading Common Market policymaker, the ECG accepted in principle a U.S.-sponsored proposal for sharing and conserving oil supplies during future energy emergencies...
...until the proportion of requirements fulfilled was the same in all countries. The precise details of this and other procedures, such as a method for eliminating the need for time-consuming approval by each parliament should an emergency hit, remain to be smoothed out in future meetings, over which Davignon will preside...