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Sir Davië Trenca, GCLG,
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Conduct of Cor mercial Relations.
We have completed our consultations with
other Departments on the revised draft statenent
thy.b onerged from our further diet Joions with
you on 9 December. For case of reference I
ntbach a copy of that draft in which the
nacktion then rude are underlined.
2.
There is general Lecontence of the
additimo lo purugraphs 1 and 3 and of the new
para. 8. But our con.ultations have raised
contain doubts about the ar lication of the
St: to, ont to the proceedings of intemational
Organ Scodons.
3.
I understand that at the nooting on 9
December you were told that Eugene Melville had
exproused misgivings or this score. He was
particularly concerned about the possibility
thxt one Font representatives might speak in
divergent terms on policy in GATT or other
into.rs binal organisations, e.ş. UMUTAU. He
considers it dangerous to attempt to reduce to a
written co cordat the relationship in the GATT
iola; indeed, if we underst rd him correctly,
he fools unhappy about eny further attempt to
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