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communiqué |
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An agreed statement issued at the end of a summit meeting or other high-level visit or multilateral conference. Occasionally described as declarations, to which they certainly bear a family resemblance, communiqués are designed to give the public some sense of what has been discussed under each head on the agenda and also suggest the substance of any consensus achieved on future policy. However, they usually have to be drafted very quickly and, while it is fair to describe them as statements which prudence dictates should be honoured, they rarely have the status of treaties; to emphasize this they are sometimes described as ‘press communiqués’. Nevertheless, they can be of huge importance, as in the case of the Shanghai Communiqué, which was issued at the end of US President Richard Nixon\'s historic visit to the People\'s Republic of China in February 1972. |
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