According to the original plan, the France trip would be after the design liaison meeting in the States, which meant that we would fly to France directly from America.

本来，按原，法国之行应在美国设计联络会议之后，直接从美国飞往法国。

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Instead, it endorsed a plan to send a senior MI5 liaison officer to work with the Northern Ireland authorities on modernising their own intelligence gathering capability.

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