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hope to persuade the Community that our
entry should not effect our Commonwealth
Immigration Rules for employment in the UK.
However present Community regulations
provide for an 13 day priority in allotting
jobs to C nationals in C member states'
labour markets over nationals from other
countries. The position of Commonwealth
immigrants is helped by anotherregulation,
that this rule of priority does not effect the
obligations of member states arising out of
special relations or existing or future
agreements with certain non-European
countries or territories based on institu-
tional ties. Our aim in negotiations will
be to secure the Community's agreement that
those Commonealth citizens whom we admit
(or have admitted) to this country for the
purgose of omgloymont, should receive
priority in the UK labour market equal to
that given in existing EEC countries to
the nationels of their former or present
comparable territories outside Europe.
TP comments on this paragraph, and the
possibility of adding to it in the light of
proposed legislation, would be welcome.J
Retellation
28. In 1967, Hong Kong officials emphasised
the point that, in their view, it would be
quite prong for Britain to regard possible
etaliation by Hong Kong as an alternative
to British action to protect the Colony.
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