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Conclude the meeting of French and Italian leader (6)

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I believe the answer is:

deduce

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'conclude the meeting' is the definition.
'deduce' can be an answer for 'conclude' (deducing is a kind of concluding). I'm unsure of the 'the meeting' bit.

'of french and italian leader' is the wordplay.
'of french' becomes 'de' ('of' in French).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'italian leader' becomes 'duce' (Benito Mussolini was known as Il Duce).
'de'+'duce'='DEDUCE'

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(Other definitions for deduce that I've seen before include "Solve by reasoning" , "Arrive at conclusion through logic" , "Infer by reasoning" , "Reason out (something)" , "Arrive at conclusion from studying facts" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and The Telegraph.
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