When you leave Washington again at the weekend, you should be in no doubt - if I may return to the cartoon I mentioned at the beginning - at least about the currency you use when making a bet. BIS Review 39/1998  ˝
I accompanied Tommaso on several of these occasions. A few preliminary meetings were held before the summer but were largely inconclusive. Most participants considered that the October summit was too far away and that there were too many imponderables to start meaningful preparatory work. In their view they needed “political guidance”.