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CONSULTATIONS WITH HONG KONG OFFICIALS...
Second Session, 24th October, 1967 at 3 p.m.
United Kingdom Delegation
Sir A. Snelling (in the Chair) Commonwealth Office
Mr. F. G. K. Gallagher
Mr. W. S. Carter
Mr C. J. Audland
Mr. G. I. Brown
Mr
J. M. Healey
Mr. J. R. D. Gildea
Mr. J. A. B. Darlington Mr. T. Muir CRC 1
Mr.N. Jordan-Moss
Mr. C. V. Peterson
Mr. M. P. Hannam
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Principal British Trade
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Secretary:
Miss K. J. Lawrence
Hong Kong Delegation
Mr. J. J. Cowperthwaite
Mr. C. P. Haddon-Cave
Mr. P. C. M. Sedgwick
Mr. D. G. Jeaffreson
Mr. J. H. Martin
Hong Kong's rights under the G.A.T.T.
Financial Secretary, Hong
Kong
Deputy Economic Director
(Acting), Hong Kong
Hong Kong Government Office,
London
Commerce and Industry
Department, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Government
Representative, Brussels
On the question of the Community countries withdrawing from
the G.A.T.T. individually and re-joining as a single body,
Mr. Muir confirmed that legally there was nothing in Article
XXIV of the G.A.T.T. which required this. Also while in a sense
it would be logical for a completed economic union to be a
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