SAVING TELEGRAM
BY BAG
FROM UKMIS GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Sir E. Melville
No. 64 Saving
5 May, 1969
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Addressed to F.C.O. telegram No. 64 Saving of 5 May, 1969
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UKDEL OECD, Paris
UKDEL EEC, Brussels
Washington
UNCTAD: Special Committee on Preferences
My immediately proçeding savingram.
Following is text: Begins:
"The Committee recalled paragraph 47 of the report on its first session.
The Committee agreed that in view of the special character of the subject and of the documentation available, there would be advantage in now establishing a Working Group to initiate consultations on the technical aspects of the rules of origin. This Working Group should bc convened by the Secretary General of UNCTAD at an early date in consultation with the various groups.
2. The Committee further agreed that there are also other aspects of the scheme on which detailed intcnsive consultations would be necessary in the Committee or in working groups to facilitate the work at the third session. It identified tentatively the following main areas for such consultations:
Product coverage and extent of, the preferences
Safeguard mechnaisms
Duration of the scheme
Special measures for the least advanced countries
Existing and reverse preferences
Institutional arrangements
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