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The NATO Nuclear Planning Group, composed of the Ministers
of Defence of seven NATO countries, adjourned today after
a two-day conference in Bonn. Attending the meeting were
Mr. Paul-Willem Segers, Belgium; Mr. Eric Ninn-Hansen,
Denmark; Mr. Gerhard Schroeder, Germany; Mr. Panayotis
Pipinelis, Greece; Mr. Luigi Gui, Italy; Mr. Denis Healey,
United Kingdom; and Mr. Clark Clifford, United States, Mr.
Manlio Brosio, Secretary General of NATO, was Chairman.
The Ministers examined the progress made in the studies
commissioned at the last Ministerial Meeting at The Hague
with regard to the tactical use of nuclear weapons in
defence of the North Atlantic Treaty area as part of the
NATO strategy of a flexible and balanced conventional and
nuclear response to aggression. They gave directions for
the expeditious completion of further tasks in this field.
The Ministers agreed to hold the Group's next meeting in
London in May 1969.
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