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COUDERT BROTHERS LLP
ATTORNEYS AT LAW

1114 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10036-7703
TEL: (212) 626-4400
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May 5, 2003

By Hand
**Personal & Unofficial**
Mr. Peter G. Peterson, Chairman
The Blackstone Group
345 Park Avenue - 31st Floor
New York, NY 10017

Dear Pete:

I applaud the creation by the Council on Foreign Relations of the independent, bipartisan Task Force on a new U.S. policy toward Europe --- and, most importantly, getting Dr. Kissinger to Co-Chair the Task Force. I can think of few more important foreign policy initiatives at this time. I wonder whether there is any comparable 18 month period in history when the world's greatest power went from being the most admired country in the world (and enjoyed the sympathy of the entire world) to being the most resented and least admired major country in the world.

I was very pleased that Dr. Kissinger included me in the small group (which included Winston Lord, Bill McDonough, Fareed Zakaria, Walter Isaacson, Don Marron, and a few others) that he invited to lunch at The Brook Club on February 13, 2003 to discuss this identical subject with his colleague and friend, the Honorable Michael Howard.

The Council on Foreign Relations announcement of the Task Force states that it will bring together "business leaders with former senior government officials and policy experts;" and, as I served for 12 years as Chairman of Coudert Brothers, America's oldest international law firm, I believe that I can make a contribution to, and would very much like to be part of, the Task Force.

Coudert Brothers opened the first U.S. law office in Europe in Paris (in 1879); the first U.S. law office in London (in 1960); one of the first U.S. law offices in Brussels (in 1965); and the first foreign law office in Moscow (in 1988). Indeed, I invited Dr. Kissinger to breakfast at Hotel LeBristol in Paris in November 1987 to consult him before making the final decision, as Coudert Brothers Chairman, to open the Moscow office (and, shortly thereafter, fortuitously, I encountered Dr. Kissinger again when he was walking around the lake in St. Moritz with Stavros Niarchos!)

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# Curriculum Vitae

SITRICK, JAMES BAKER, lawyer; born Davenport, Iowa, February 21, 1935; married Anne H.M. Helmers, August 21, 1971, Stockholm Sweden; children: James Baker Jr., Margaret Ann, Catherine Baker; BA, U. Wis., 1957 LLM, Yale Law School, 1960; 1st lt. U.S., Army, 1960-61; Admitted to New York Bar, 1961.

Office: Coudert Brothers, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036-7703,
Tel.: (212) 626-4444.

## I Private Sector Experience:

A. Chairman of the Executive Committee, Coudert Brothers, N.Y.C., 1982-1993; Senior Partner, Coudert Brothers, New York City 1993 to present.

During the period served as Coudert Brothers Chairman and CEO, the firm, among other things: (1) in 1988 opened the first private law office in Moscow in the then Soviet Union; (2) opened offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Los Angeles and San Jose; (3) increased the number of lawyers from 190 to almost 400; and (4) tripled its gross income, and more than quadrupled its net income.

B. My legal practice during my professional career has included originating, and acting as the partner primarily responsible for the relationship with, the following representative list of clients:

### 1. Representative Corporate Clients

a. Bank Julius Baer, one of Switzerland's largest private banks;

b. CSM, a Dutch public company which (a) is the world's largest producer of lactic acid, (b) is one of the EU's largest producers of sugar, ingredients and branded food products. Also acted for approximately 15 years as a member of the U.S. Management Committee;

c. Republic of Ecuador, in negotiations from 1987-1992 involving restructuring Ecuador's approximately $12 billion in debt to international lenders;

d. Estee Lauder, in establishing and operating all its Russian activities;

e. Global Asset Management, a U.K.-based series of international

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investment companies created in 1982 by Gilbert de Botton and Lord Rothschild. Also attend all U.S. meetings of the Board of Directors;

f. Lend Lease Corp. Ltd., Australia's largest real estate development group. Also served for approximately 15 years on the Board of their U.S. subsidiary (which originally was part of a joint venture with J. Henry Schroder Bank of London);

g. Noboa Group, Ecuador's largest conglomerate, the world's third largest producer of bananas, and owner of one of the world's largest fleet of refrigerated vessels;

h. Quantum Fund, Structured and organized Quantum Fund (originally Soros Fund) in 1973, and attended all Board Meetings for 20 years;

i. Government of El Salvador, Acted in a $135 million international arbitration against the El Paso Group.

## 2. Representative Private Clients

a. The Eleventh Duke of Manchester. I acted as U.S. legal advisor, and Executor of the U.S. Will.

b. Mrs. Rupert Hambro. I have acted for more than 25 years as a co-Trustee with Mellon Bank of trusts established by Mr. Francis Boyer, former Chairman of Smith, Kline & French, for his daughter.

c. Marietta Tree. I acted as legal advisor, and served as an Executor of the estate.

d. Howard Johnson. I serve as a Trustee for five Trusts established for the benefit of his 3 children, his wife, and his mother.

## II Government Experience:

Acted as special assistant to Mr. Stanley Surrey, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy (formerly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School), and sporadically for Mr. Winthrop Knowlton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (formerly partner in White, Weld & Co.; Executive Vice President, Harper & Row, publishers; and Director, Center For Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard). The principal matters on which I worked were the following:

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A. **Legislation:** H.R. 13103 (Foreign Investors Tax Act of 1966). That law embodied the most extensive revision of the U.S. tax law since its inception in 1913, as it affects the taxation of foreign investors in the United States. Responsibilities entailed working with the Senate and House Offices of Legislative Counsel, and the Joint Committee Staff on Internal Revenue Taxation, in drafting the legislation and the explanations of the bill; compiling a briefing book on the bill for use by Treasury Secretaries Fowler and Surrey during their presentations to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee; attending hearings in the Senate Finance Committee (Senator Russell Long, Chairman), and the House Ways and Means Committee (Congressman Wilbur Mills, Chairman), meeting with interested groups concerning issues created by the bill and I was designated the Treasury Department representative principally responsible for drafting and supervising the issuance of Treasury regulations under that law, to further elucidate Congressional intent in enacting the statute.

B. **Treaties:** Acted as a principal participant in the negotiation and drafting of treaties for the avoidance of double taxation (or protocols to existing treaties) between the United States and the United Kingdom, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and Honduras (and in writing the technical explanation of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report to the protocol with the Federal Republic of Germany); also worked with representatives of foreign governments on matters involving the treaties between the United States and Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands; and attended hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman) concerning those treaties.

C. **Tax Rulings:** Acted as a principal policymaker and draftsman of rules utilized by the U.S. Treasury Department regarding to the issuance of tax rulings involving international corporate mergers, acquisitions of the stock or assets of one corporation by another corporation, and liquidations of subsidiary corporations, where one of the parties to the transaction is a foreign corporation.

D. **International Conferences:** On behalf of the U.S. Treasury Department, I represented of the U.S. Government at (a) a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in San Jose, Costa Rica in November 1966; and (b) the meetings of the International Fiscal Association in Stockholm in August 1967.

## III Charitable Activities:

A. **Current:**

Pierpont Morgan Library: Trustee

Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.): Trustee

American Friends of The British Library: Trustee

American Friends of Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris): Chairman

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Transatlantic Relations Task Force Members

As of April 30, 2003

Accepted:

* Giuliano Amato, European Convention

* Reginald Bartholomew, Merrill Lynch Europe

* Douglas Bereuter, U.S. House

* L. Paul Bremer III, MMC Enterprise Risk Co. (unable to attend first meeting)

* Harold Brown, Center for Strategic & International Studies (via phone)

* Richard Burt, International Equity Partners (via video)

* Thierry de Montbrial, Ifri

* Thomas E. Donilon, Fannie Mae

* Stuart E. Eizenstat, Covington & Burling (via video)

* Martin Feldstein, Harvard University (unable to attend first meeting)

* John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University

* Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford University (via phone)

* G. John Ikenberry, Georgetown University

* Josef Joffe, Die Zeit

* Robert Kagan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (via phone)

* Sylvia Mathews, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

* William J. McDonough, Federal Reserve Bank of NY

* Andrzej Olechowski, Civic Platform

* Felix Rohatyn, Rohatyn Associates LLC

* Brent Scowcroft, Forum for International Policy

* Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University

* Daniel K. Tarullo, Georgetown University Law Center

* Laura D'Andrea Tyson, London Business School (unable to attend first meeting)

* Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University

Memorandum

**To:** Henry Kissinger, Larry Summers

**From:** Charles Kupchan

**Date:** April 24, 2003

**Subject:** CFR Task Force on Transatlantic Relations -- May 5 Agenda

This memo outlines the decisions we reached in our conference call yesterday regarding the agenda of the first meeting of the task force on May 5 in New York.

The meeting will address three central questions:

1. What is the nature of the current rift in transatlantic relations? How serious is it?

2. What are its causes?

3. What are the implications for U.S. national interests, international institutions, and the international system as a whole?

We will spend roughly one and one-half hours on each question. At the beginning of the meeting, each of you will make up to ten minutes of opening remarks. I will follow with roughly five minutes of additional comments. We will then discuss the above three questions in turn, with two members of the task force opening the sessions with initial presentations of no more than five minutes each. You will alternate as chairs. At the end of each of the three sections, the chair will briefly summarize the deliberations. The rough schedule will be as follows:

**Welcome and Opening Remarks**

12:00-12:30 Kissinger, Summers, and Kupchan

**Question One**

12:30-12:40 Presentations by Amato and Gaddis
12:40-1:15 Discussion chaired by Kissinger
1:15-1:30 Break for Lunch
1:30-1:55 Discussion Continues (Working Lunch)
1:55-2:00 Summation by Kissinger

**Question Two**

2:00-2:10 Presentations by Joffe and Scowcroft
2:10-3:20 Discussion chaired by Summers
3:20-3:25 Summation by Summers
3:25-3:35 Break

Question Three

3:35-3:45 Presentations by Bereuter and McDonough
3:45-4:50 Discussion chaired by Kissinger and Summers
4:50-5:00 Summation and Closing Remarks by Kissinger and Summers

I am contacting the six members of the task force that we have identified to make remarks at the opening of each session. We will keep you informed regarding outstanding invitations to join the task force.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or further thoughts. I look forward to seeing you on May 5.

Memorandum

**From:** Charles Kupchan

**Date:** April 24, 2003

2. What are its causes?

**Question One**

**Question Two**

Question Three

Jesee Incao

From: JFly@cfr.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:39 AM
To: wgivhan@cfr.org; jincao@kmaglobal.com
Subject: RE: CFR Task Force on Transatlantic Relations -- April 23 Conference Call

Please note that Ambassador Bartholomew will call Dr. Kissinger's office to be patched in
to the conference call.

Jamie M. Fly

Research Associate, Europe and National Security
Council on Foreign Relations

1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20036

Phone: (202) 518-3404

Fax: (202) 986-2984

----- Forwarded by Jamie Fly/DC/CFR on 04/23/2003 09:48 AM -----

<JFly@cfr.org>
"Contri, Alessandra
(Roma)"
<AlessandraC@exchange
.it.ml.com>

Transatlantic Relations --

04/23/2003 06:37 AM

To: "JFly@cfr.org"

cc:

April 23 Conference Call

Hi Jamie,

Amb. Bartholomew will attend the conf. call today; he will call Dr. Kissinger's office
directly.

Kind regards,

A

> -----Original Message-----

> From: JFly@cfr.org [SMTP:JFly@cfr.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:29 PM
> To: Contri, Alessandra (Roma)
> Cc: wgivhan@cfr.org

> Subject: CFR Task Force on Transatlantic Relations -- April 23

Conference Call

>

> Alessandra,

>

> Les Gelb would like to invite Ambassador Bartholomew to participate in

> a conference call with Dr. Kissinger, President Summers, and Dr.

> Kupchan tomorrow, April 23, from 12-12:30 pm New York time.

1

(L.C)

> The call is to discuss task force membership and the agenda for the
> first meeting on May 5. I am attaching a memo that was sent yesterday
> to President Summers and Dr. Kissinger. We will send a second memo in
> a few hours specifically related to the conference call.

> Please let me know if Ambassador Bartholomew will be able to
> participate. We can establish an Italian number that he can call or if
> he knows where

he

> will be, we can call him. A third option would be for him to call Dr.
> Kissinger's office.

> Thanks,
> Jamie

> (See attached file: May 5 Memo.doc) (See attached file: Reading
> List.doc) (See attached file: TF Members.doc)

> Jamie M. Fly
> Research Associate, Europe and National Security

> Council on Foreign Relations
> 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW
> Washington, DC 20036

> Phone: (202) 518-3404
> Fax: (202) 986-2984 << File: May 5 Memo.doc >> << File: Reading

> List.doc
>> << File: TF Members.doc >>

Memorandum

**From:** Charles A. Kupchan

**Date:** April 22, 2003

This memo lays out the agenda for the conference call that will take place tomorrow from 12 to 12:30 p.m. For your reference, please find attached an updated list of responses from invited participants and a list of Republicans we could invite to achieve political balance.

**12:00-12:15 p.m. Task Force Membership**

Kissinger, Summers, Bartholomew, Gelb, Kupchan

Several of the invited Republicans have declined to join the group (Gates, Lugar, Perle, and Shultz). We need to discuss extending invitations to additional Republicans. We also need to discuss the participation of Kagan and Browne, neither of whom can attend the first two meetings.

**12:15-12:30 p.m. Agenda for May 5**

Kissinger, Summers, Bartholomew, Kupchan

Please refer to my memo of yesterday proposing an agenda for the May 5 meeting. We also need to discuss the potential participation of members by speakerphone and/or videoconference.

[LC]

# Transatlantic Relations Task Force Members

## As of April 22, 2003

### Accepted:

* Thierry de Montbrial, Ifri

* Joe Joffe, Die Zeit

### Observers:

* Caroline Atkinson, Council on Foreign Relations

* Benn Steil, Council on Foreign Relations

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## Declined:

* John Browne, BP

* Robert M. Gates, Texas A & M University (LHG left word)

* Richard Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

* Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute

* George P. Shultz, Hoover Institution

* Martin Wolf, Financial Times

## No Response:

* Joe Biden, U.S. Senate (LHG left word)

* Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford (invitation faxed 4/21)

* James R. Schlesinger, Lehman Brothers (LHG left word)

## Potential Republican Additions:

* Richard Burt (former Ambassador to Germany, International Equity Partners)

* Eliot Cohen (SAIS)

* William Cohen (former Secretary of Defense, The Cohen Group)

* Lawrence Eagleburger (former Secretary of State, Baker, Donaldson, Bearman and Caldwell)

* Francis Fukuyama (SAIS)

* Robert Kimmitt (former Ambassador to Germany, AOL Time Warner)

* William Kristol (The Weekly Standard)

CFR Task Force on Transatlantic Relations
Reading List

Bergsten, C. Fred, "America and Europe: Clash of the Titans?" *Foreign Affairs*, Vol. 78, No. 2 (March/April 1999).

Bergsten, C. Fred, "The Transatlantic Century," *The Washington Post*, April 30, 2002.

Blair, Tony, "Speech to the Polish Stock Exchange," Warsaw, October 6, 2000.

Chirac, Jacques, "Our Europe," German Bundestag, Berlin, June 27, 2000.

European Commission, "Overview" in "Spring 2003 Economic Forecasts," April 8, 2003.

Fischer, Joschka, "From Confederacy to Federation – Thoughts on the finality of European integration," Humboldt University, Berlin, May 12, 2000.

Garton Ash, Timothy, "Anti-Europeanism in America," *The New York Review of Books*, February 13, 2003.

Ikenberry, G. John, "Getting hegemony right," *The National Interest*, No. 63 (Spring 2001).

Joffe, Josef, "Continental Divides," *The National Interest*, No. 71 (Spring 2003).

Judt, Tony, "America and the World," *The New York Review of Books*, April 10, 2003.

Judt, Tony, "Anti-Americans Abroad," *The New York Review of Books*, May 1, 2003.

Kagan, Robert, "Power and Weakness," *Policy Review*, No. 113 (June/July 2002).

Kissinger, Henry A., "America and Europe: The World of Democracies" in *Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century* (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).

Kissinger, Henry A., "A Dangerous Divergence," *The Washington Post*, December 10, 2002.

Kissinger, Henry A., "The 'Made in Berlin' Generation," *The Washington Post*, October 30, 2002.

Kissinger, Henry A., "Repairing the Atlantic Alliance," *The Washington Post*, April 14, 2003.

Kissinger, Henry A., "Role Reversal and Alliance Realities," *The Washington Post*, February 10, 2003.

Knowlton, Brian, "A global image on the way down," *International Herald Tribune*, December 6, 2002.

Kupchan, Charles A., "The Atlantic Alliance Lies in the Rubble," *Financial Times*, April 10, 2003.

Kupchan, Charles A., "The End of the West," *Atlantic Monthly*, November 2002.

Kupchan, Charles A., "The Last Days of the Atlantic Alliance," *Financial Times*, November 18, 2002.

Quinlan, Joseph P., "Executive Summary" in *Drifting Apart or Growing Together? The Primacy of the Transatlantic Economy* (Washington: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2003).

Sapir, André, "Old and New Issues in EC-US Trade Disputes," Conference Paper, April 5, 2002.

Solana, Javier, "Mars and Venus Reconciled: A New Era for Transatlantic Relations," Albert H. Gordon Lecture, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 7, 2003.

"The State of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership," Debate between Christopher Patten and Richard Perle, The Trilateral Commission, 26th European Meeting, Prague, October 20, 2002.

To: Henry Kissinger and Larry Summers

From: Charles Kupchan

Date: April 21, 2003

This memo lays out the decisions we reached in our New York meeting of April 1 and summarizes the steps we are taking in preparation for the first meeting of the task force on May 5.

We are planning three meetings of the task force. The May 5 meeting will focus on diagnosing the causes and mapping out the implications of the current transatlantic rift. The June 16 meeting will address the policy agenda, focusing on steps that can be taken to put the transatlantic relationship on a sounder foundation. At the meeting of July 22, we will discuss the actual content of the task force report. We expect release of the final report in September.

The May 5 meeting will address three central questions:

2. What are its causes?

We will spend roughly one and one-half hours on each question. At the beginning of each of the three sections of the meeting, both of you will make 5-7 minutes of opening remarks. I will then follow with 3-5 minutes of additional comments. We will then open the discussion to task force members.

I attach a list indicating which invited participants have accepted and which have declined. We can discuss during our April 23 conference call whether we should extend any new invitations.

I also attach a draft list of reading materials that will be sent to task force participants. Please add to this list as you see fit. We intend to mail out the reading packet by Wednesday, April 23.

Please let me know if you have further thoughts on the agenda for the May 5 meeting or any other suggestions pertaining to preparations for the task force.

As of April 21, 2003

Accepted:

* Thierry de Montbrial, Ifri

* Joe Joffe, Die Zeit

Observers:

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FAX TRANSMISSION COVER SHEET

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**To:** Henry Kissinger
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YOU SHOULD RECEIVE 3 PAGE(S), INCLUDING THIS COVER SHEET. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE ALL THE PAGES, PLEASE CALL 212-434-9569

Attached is an update on the task force membership as of Friday, April 18. Neither John Browne nor Martin Wolf can join the Task Force as members. Please put these additional candidates in order of preference to fill the British representative spot:

[ ] Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford University)

[ ] Leon Brittan (UBS Warburg)

[ ] Douglas Hurd (House of Lords)

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Accepted:

* Thierry de Montbriai, Ifri

* Joe Joffe, Die Zeit

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