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Finance ministers pre maastricht talks; HOLLAND The Hague MS SIDE car as door held open and PM John Major gets out PAN R-L as he smiles and walks R-L MS Major aide standing holding several red despatch boxes PAN R-L as aide into building CMS Major standing chatting to Hans Van Den Broek (Dutch FM) PAN as also chatting to Rudd Lubbers (Dutch PM) and Douglas Hurd (British FM) PULL OUT all standing for photocall GV Waves lapping onto beach and people well wrapped up on beach and buildings along promenade GV Finance Ministers standing on steps for photocall CMS Four of them with Jacques Delors standing in front PAN R-L more ditto to Norman Lamont (Chancellor) INT GV Foreign Ministers sitting round tables and three lots of flower arrangements on floor between tables MS Irish representatives (not known) MS Lamont sitting with two others EXT/NIGHT CMS Anders Fogh Rasmanssen (Danish Finance Minister) intvw SOF - Denmark supported exclusion clause but there was no other support for it INT MS Press conference with Wim Kok speaking and Jacques Delors (EC pres) sitting beside CMS Wim Kok (Dutch Finance Min) pkf SOF - After this first round of talks it is clear that majority of member states are not happy with the exemption clause CMS Norman Lamont (Chancellor) intvw SOF - Meeting has gone quite well but there is still a lot to do EXT/NIGHT CMS Stourton i/c SOF + sign off