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PRIORITY BONN TO
BONN TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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REGISTRY No.45 15 JUN NO
PRIORITY 'BONN TELNO 1 TO HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1970
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ADDRESSED TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG TEL MO 131 F 12 JUSE 1977. BEL TO FCO BRUSSELS PARIS THE HAGUE ROME UKMIS GENEVA AND UKDEL EC,
FRWM DIDGE IN BONN.
-COTTON TEXTILES: HONG KONG/ECC.
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THE CERMAN POSITION ON THE 3-1124TH EXTENSION IS LAGEN
FULLY COURT HATED HERE IN VIEW OF LATEST COMMUNITY DEVELO VENTO
DUPING MY VISIT.
2. THE ARTICLE 113 COMMITTEE HAS THIS WEEK REACHED AGREEMENT
DETAILED COMMUNITY ARTICLE 4 MANDATE FOR THE COMMISSION
TO NEG TLATE VIS-A-VIS HONG KONG AND OTHERS. ERUST'S FORMAL
AP ROACH TO US WILL STILL APPARENTLY NEED MINISTERIAL COUNCIL
APPROVAL BUT THIS IS NOW A FORMALITY.
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3. PRIOR TO THE NEWS OF THIS 113 COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT, GERMAN FOREIGN TRADE POLICY OFFICIALS HERE (VON ROEDER, KUSCHEL AND PLUISCH OF THIEME'S DEPARTMENT, THE LATTER BEING AWAY FROM BONN) ARE ACTIVELY ADVISING THAT WE SHOULD TAKE A HARD LIDE WITH ERNST AND PROMISED ME THAT THEY WOULD SOON BE APPLYING
FOR THE FORMAL SHORT EXTENSION THEY DID NOT EVEN EXCLUDE THE
HYPOTHESIS OF A LONGER-TERM EXTENSION IF HARMONISATION WAS
DELAYED. HENCE PERHAPS THE SCHOLTYSSEK STATEMENT. LATER, ON THE OTHER HAND, FRIEDRICH OF THE TEXTILES DEPARTMENT, ON HIS OWN ADMISSION UNDER THE DIRECT LAST-MINUTE INFLUENCE
OF ERNST ON THE TELEPHONE, AT FIRST SHIFTED GROUND AND OPENLY ADVOCATED OUR ACCEPTING ERNST'S OFFER OF EARLY NEGOTIATION?,
IN THE LIGHT OF THE DEVELOPED COMMUNITY CONSIDERATIONS. HE WAS
SUPPORTED WY NIESS.
4.
ERNST HAS BEEN CLAIMING THAT WE WERE VIRTUALLY ''REFUSING
TO NEGOTIATE. 1 EXPLAINED OUR REAL POSITION. CHE PECULIARITY
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