BRIEF NO. G.1.- EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
PART II
Talking points for use with the public
These talking points can be used in all the countries
visited. Where there are any special points concerning
a particular country, the se have been noted in square
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My visit is part of a tour during which I want to learn
at first hand something about the achievements and problems
of Britain's Commonwealth partners in the Pacific area.
Contains. (shall be meeting Ministers and fit would be surprising if
discussing matters of common concern, we did not dealt with
Britain's new approach to the European Economic Community.
2. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are at present
undertaking a series of visits to the capitals of the Community
countries to see whether conditions exist or do not exist
for fruitful negotiations for British entry into the Community
and the basis on which such negotiations could take place.
follows that we have not yet taken any decision. This can
only be made when the British Cabinet have taken stock of the
position in the light of the exploratory discussions with the
Heads of Government of the Six.
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Thus, so far as Britain's relations with the Community are
concerned, my visit is quite different from the visits which
Mr. Duncan Sandys and other British Ministers paid to
Commonwealth countries in 1961. Their object was to discuss
on the eve of negotiations, how Commonwealth problems should
be dealt with, We have not yet decided whether to seek
negotiations and, until we do, consultations of the kind
undertaken in 1961 would be premature.
My object, therefore,
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