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PRIORITY BRUSSELS
TELEGRAM NUMBER 143
CONFIDENTIAL. [NEUTRAL]
CONFIDENTIAL
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALT
21 APRIL 1969
·H OFFICE
ADDRESSED TO F C O TELEGRAM NUMBER 413 OF 21 APRIL REPEATED FOR
INFORMATION SAVING TO BERNE BONN PARIS ROME TOKYO WASHINGTON
LUXEMBOURG UKDEL EC BRUSSELS UKMIS GENEVA HONG KONG AND UKDEL CECD.
YOUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 313 TO BONN: MR. STANS' VISIT.
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M. DE SMET, THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HAS GIVEN US THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT
OF THE VISIT. THERE WAS ONLY A SHORT TIME AVAILABLE FOR DISCUSSIONS
WITH M. FAYAT, THE BELGIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, AND MOST OF
THIS WAS TAKEN UP WITH AN EXPOSE BY MR. STANS SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH HE MADE IN OTHER CAPITALS. M. FAYAT, WHO WAS LEFT WITH LITTLE TIME IN WHICH TO COMMENT, DECLINED TO EXPRESS ANY VIEWS ON THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES' AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND ON BORDER TAXES
ON THE GROUNDS THAT THESE WERE MATTERS FOR THE BELGIAN MINISTERS
OF AGRICULTURE AND FINANCE, AS REGARDS TEXTILES, M. FAYAT SAID THAT HE COULD NOT ACCEPT THE PRINCIPLE OF VOLUNTARY LIMITATION:
WHEN MR. STANSEMENTIONED STFEL, HE SAID THAT THE BELGIAN PRODUCERS WERE ALREADY REGRETTING THEIR PART IN THE RECENT AGREEMENT.
M. FAYAT SAID THAT HE WAS READY TO EXPLORE FURTHER THE PROBLEMS
RAISED BY MR. STANS, BUT THAT HE COULD NOT AGREE TO ATTEND A
GENERAL CONFERENCE IN JUNE WITHOUT BEING MUCH CLEARER ABOUT WHAT
THE AMERICANS ENVISAGED. HE ALSO INDICATED THAT THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY
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