On 23 April 1979, in a confidential note sent to Émile Noël, Executive Secretary of the Commission of the European Economic Community, Umberto G. Stefani, Secretary General of Coreper and former chair of the interinstitutional group for emergency aid to the Member States, refers to the visit he received from Stenho, Adviser to the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, and more particularly to their discussion concerning issues such as operations at the China–Vietnam border, EEC–Comecon relations and EEC–China relations.