Bertelsmann Foundation
Executive Board:
Dr. Mark Wössner (chairman)
Reinhard Mohn
Prof. Dr. Werner Weidenfeld

P. O. Box 103
Carl-Bertelsmann-Strasse 256
33311 Gütersloh, Germany
Telephone (++49) 52 41/817-0
Telefax (++49) 52 41/816677

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Suite 400
1800 K St. N.W.

USA-Washington, D.C. 20006

JUL 06 1999

June 30, 1999

Dear Henry,

Once again I would like to thank you most cordially for your participation in this year's International Bertelsmann Forum held in Warsaw. As always, your comments not only in the panel on the future European security structure but also in the general debate were an excellent contribution to the discussion.

Not too long ago important stimuli were given to the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe at the very place where we just now designed scenarios of how the enlarged European Union might define its relations with those states in Eastern Europe which will become direct neighbours of the Union after its enlargement.

To my mind, the statements and discussions in and outside the conference room sketched a detailed image of the problems of EU enlargement and the notions of the future development of European security structures.

I hope that this event could offer you impulses for your own work as well. I would appreciate if the Bertelsmann Foundation could rely on your further good cooperation in the future.