§ A meeting of experts was held in Bonn in June-July to prepare for the "Scientific Forum" and agreed that this should be held in Hamburg in early 1980. The forum will be a meeting of scientists to discuss the development of science and to promote contacts, communications and the exchange of information between 276W scientific institutions and among scientists.
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A special section of the Final Act concerns
Questions relating to security and cooperation in the Mediterranean ".
§ Preparations are continuing for a multilateral meeting of experts to be held in Valletta in February 1979 at the invitation of the Maltese Government, which will consider possible co-operation in economic scientific and cultural fields of interest to Mediterranean countries.
§ CONCLUSION
§ In the period leading up to the Madrid meeting in autumn 1980 the Government will continue to monitor carefully the implementation of the Helsinki Final Act.
§ NATO Foreign Ministers, at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council on 7th-8th December, recognised that full implementation of all sections of the Final Act was an essential element for promoting detente and stressed the need for improvements in implementation between now and the Madrid meeting, so that the participating States could take part on the political level. In the Government's view, this meeting should be attended by Foreign Ministers, in order to give a new political impetus to the CSCE process.