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 RIFKIND DEFENDS BRITISH ACTION ON BEEF 
 Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has  
 rejected claims bz EC President Jacques
                                        
 bj f cris s.                           
                                        
 Mr Sante  s id Brussels should have    
      inform   a out the scar   arlii . 
                                        
 However, Mr Rifkind told BBC TV that   
 Parliament had to be informed first.   
                                        
 Mr Rjfkind also said the Govjrnmjnt    
 would insist on the EU agreeing to a   
 timetable for lifting the ban on       
 British   ef  xp rts.                  
                                        
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