6. On timing, Mr. Goldsmith said that a meeting of the Special Committee on Preferences was likely quite early in 1970. No meetings in OECD were at the present fixed, but suggestions had been made in the corridors that there should be informal meetings between the heads of major delegations in order to try to reach an accommodation between the differing points of view. He said that when Ernst came here he would bring up the subject of preferences and refer to the problem of Hong Kong. Ernst might be able to say something although it was more likely that he would take the line that this was a matter for Di Martino.
CRE1,
November, 1969.
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