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Hong Kong to do something they did not
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want to do but also of telling her not to
do something that she did want to do.
Mr. Laird wondered whether this question
of soverignty was related to the question
of delegation of authority. Sir J.Cowper-
thwaite said that in a sense this was so,
except the delegation of authority was a
reversible business.
6. Turning to the question of the Genera-
lised Preferences Scheme, Sir C. O'Neill
said we had thought it right to raise the
position of Hong Kong under the scheme in
the context of our application for member-
Partly
ship of the Communities because of the Six's
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to Hong Kong than had seemed probable a
few months ago. We would, if the Hong
Kong Government saw no objection, continue
our discussions with the Communities on
this basis Sir J. Cowperthwaite said
that the Hong Kong Government had not
a little time
ago,
expected, that the six would make such
apid progress with the General freferences
Scheme or had they thought that the EEC
offer would turn out to be a mjor factor
in determining the American attitude.
Sir C. O'Neill said it might be worth
discussing later the implications of the EEC
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