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-6 OCT 1969
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PRIORITY UK MISSION GENEVA TO HONG KONG.
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2£1
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1 OCTOBER 1969.
ADDRESSED TO HONG KONG TELEGRAM HUMBER 21 OF OCTOBER 1 RFI F C O WASHINGTON ( FOR HERMANN)
YOUR TELEGRAM:IUMBER 9
COTTON TEXTILES COMMITTEE
FROM JONES.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH USUAL PRACTICE NAMES INDICATED AND DESIG- NATIONS HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN LIST OF UK DELEGATION. I WILL
MEET JORDON AT AIRPORT,
?. YOUR PARAGRAPH 2. CULBERT (WHO HAS REPLACED PROPPS IN US MISSION) MENTIONED TO ME AT A GATT MEETING YESTERDAY THAT US WOULD BE HAVING BUSINESS' WITH HONG KONG DURING OR AFTER C T C MEETING. I REPLIED THAT HONG KONG HAD PROPOSED ANNUAL REVIEW OF COTTON BILATERAL BE HELD IN GENEVA ON 13 OCTOBER (MILL'S LETTER TO SARTORICUS OF 23 SEPTEMBER), WHEN CULBERT INDICATED HE MEANT THE US APPROACH ON NON-COTTONS I SAID MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT HONG KONG WOULD NOT (REPEAT NOT) BE READY TO DISCUSS A COMPREHENSIVE BILATERAL ON NON-COTTONS. HOTHING THAT HAD BEEN PUT FORWARD SO FAR ON THE US SIDE INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A CASE FOR SUCH ACTION. FURTHERMORE, I UNDERSTOOD THAT NO APPROACH HAD YET BEEN MADE TO TAIWAN AND SOUTH KOREA FOR POLITICAL REASONS. WHATEVER THOSE REASONS WERD I DID HOT CONSIDER THAT THEY WERE RELEVANT IN A MATTER OF THIS SORT WHICH SHOULD BE DEALT WITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE GATT. I POINTED OUT THAT US IMPORTS OF NON- COTTON TEXTILES FROM BOTH TAIWAN AND SOUTH KOREA WERE HIGHER THAN THEIR IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG.
3. CULBERT'S ONLY RESPONSE WAS TO ASK POINT BLANK
WHETHER HONG KONG WISHED TO TAKE THE RISK OF SEEING WHETHER THE AMERICANS WERE PLUFFING (WITH PEFERENCE TO CONGRESSIONAL