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Transcript of Press Conference by Professor Ralf Dahırendorf :
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The reason for my visit to Japan is two-fold,
first we are presently engaged in negotiations with
Japan about the commercial agreement between the
Buropean Community and Japan and that the stage in
the negotiation that is induced for me to have a
look for myself and see what sort of political
indications are. The other reason is the familiar
the world problem in textile trade is what we are
all concerned with, notably because of the intention
in the United States of having unilateral restrictions
on textile import.
Ques.
Did you have any discussion while you're
here about Britain joining the Common Market with
Hong Kong as an associate territory?
Ans.
I have a lot of questions raised by a
number of people and got quite a lot of information
because we are quite familiar with the problems which
are involved in Britain's joining for a number of
countries and territories, Hong Kong
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there was nothing new but it was important to be able
to discuss it on the point where this really matters
that's to say at this place. It is too early to say
what the position of Hong Kong is likely to be after
British entry, we still haven't discussed that part
in our negotiations. What you call associated
membership is however a somewhat complicated te:m
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