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2. IN REPLY, I SAID THAT I WAS GLAD THAT THE COMMUNITY HAD
BEEN ABLE TO REACT TO OUR PROPOSAL REGARDING OUR DEPENDENT
TERRITORIES AND THAT THEY HAD EXPRESSED A WILLINGNESS IN
PRINCIPLE TO ASSOCIATE OUR DEPENDENT TERRITORIES ON THE SAME
BASIS AS THE COMMUNITY HAD ASSOCIATED THEIR COMPARABLE
MTERRITORIES. WE TOOK NOTE OF THEIR RESERVATIONS,
I HOPED THAT, IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAD SAID, WE COULD AGREE TO RECOMMEND TO MINISTERS THAT, ON 27 OCTOBER, THEY SHOULD AGREE PROVISIONALLY THAT THESE TERRITORIES SHOULD
BE ASSOCIATED UNDER PART IV OF THE ROME TREATY.
3. I THEN MADE TWO GENERAL POINTS:
(1) ANY SUCH DECISION WOULD STILL LEAVE THE NEED TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE INTERESTS OF THOSE OF OUR DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
IN 50 FAR AS THEY WERE COVERED BY THE COMMONWEATH SUGAR AGREEMENT SOME OF THE TERRITORIES WERE SUGAR PRODUCERS AND
PART IV ASSOCIATION WOULD NOT HELP THEM ON THIS POINT. WE ASSUMED THAT THIS MATTER WOULD BE COVERED SEPARATELY AND
THAT IT WOULD BE THE COMMUNITY'S WISH THAT IT SHOULD BE DEALT
WITH WHEN WE COME TO CONSIDER THE INTERESTS OF DEVELOPING
COMMONWEALTH SUGAR PRODUCERS AS A WHOLE.
(11) THERE WAS ALSO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE DATE ON WHICH
ASSOCIATION UNDER PART IV MIGHT TAKE EFFECT. WHATEVER MIGHT
BC AGREED NOW, SOME TIME WAS BOUND TO ELAPSE BEFORE THE
TAKING EFFECT OF ASSOCIATION. THERE COULD DE CHANGES AND WE
UNDERTOOK TO TELINTHE COMMUNITY PROMPTLY IF THE CONSTITITIONAL
CIRCUMSTANCES OR VIEWS OF ANY OF THE TERRITORIES IN QUESTION
MERE TO DEVELOP IN A MANNER WHICH WOULD MAKE A REVIEW OF
OUR DECISION IN RESPECT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL TERRITORY ADVISABLE. 4. I REFERRED TO THREE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS:
(1) HOMC KONG, I SAID THAT I WAS SORRY TO HEAR WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAD SAID ABOUT HONG KONG EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NOT
EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED HONG KONG AS A CANDIDATE FOR ASSOCIATION,
WE WERE BOUND TO MAINTAIN THAT, AS A DEPENDENCY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, HONG KONG SHOULD BE TREATED NO LESS FAVOURABLY
THAN WERE THE DEPENDENCIES OF THE PRESENT MEMBER STATES
OF THE COMMUNITY, IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAD SAID
IT WAS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT THAT WE. SHOULD HAVE AN EARLY
DISCUSSION WITH THEN ADOUT THE FUTURE RELATIONSHIP OF HONG
KONG WITH AN E-LARGED COMMUNITY,
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