ABSTRACT
To prepare Wilton Park for its possible future as an Executive Agency, its ideals and purposes had to be reaffirmed. This credo was known in Whitehall, uninspiringly, as ‘The Framework Document’. Heinz Koeppler might have found another title for it: he would certainly have infused it with his own ringing rhetoric. The version drafted in August 1985 by Geoffrey Denton and Nicholas Barrington had been both schematic and laboured. By November 1989 it had been pummelled into rather different shape:
Aims and objectives: Wilton Park’s aim as an Executive Agency will be to operate
conferences in international affairs of a high quality, intended to attract senior politicians, officials, businessmen, academics, and other professionals from many countries and international organisations to the UK; and to serve the interests of HMG by presenting the UK as a country which aims to promote the solution of international problems by improving international understanding through dialogue.
