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President.
I can only offer you the facts. He is not here and he is detained doing the work that he is meant to do: chairing the Convention. These are the facts of the matter and I do not want to make any interpretations as regards his willingness to engage with us.
I suggest that we put this item on the agenda for Thursday's Conference of Presidents meeting. We should take note of it from today and then try to make a recommendation, hopefully on a consensual basis, on how to proceed on Wednesday 18 June or Thursday 19 June in Brussels.
The order of business was thus established.

