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TO PRIORITY FCO TELNO. 2692 OF 17 APRIL/INFO UKMIS GENEVA.
MIPT (NOT TO UKMIS GENEVA):
MEETING OF TEXTILES WORKING GROUP: 16 APRIL:
GATT QUESTIONS.
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1. THE TIMETABLE FOR FUTURE WORK IN THE COMMUNITY ON THE PROPOSED GATT MULTILATERAL TEXTILE AGREEMENT WAS ESTABLISHED
AS FOLLOWS:-
(A)
(B)
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2 TO 4 HAY - FIRST MEETING OF GATT WORKING PARTY IN GENEVA, THE COMMISSION WILL PREPARE A PRELIMINARY PAPER WHICH WILL BE CIRCULATED TO THE COMMUNITY COORDINATION MEETING TO BE HELD IN GENEVA AT 1100 HOURS ON 2 MAY.
MID-MAY.
THE COMMUNITY - WORKING GROUP WILL MEET (IN BRUSSELS) TO AGREE A PAPER, ON THE BASIS OF A DRAFT WHICH THE COMMISSION WILL PRODUCE, SETTING OUT THE COMMUNITY'S VIEWS IN GREATER DETAIL. THIS WILL BE TABLED AT THE NEXT MEETING OF THE GATT WORKING PARTY WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN GENEVA AT THE END OF MAY.
2. ERNST (COMMISSION) INSISTED THAT THE COMMUNITY MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE UP DEFINITE POSITIONS IN THE GATT DISCUSSIONS, HE PROPOSED THAT AT THE MEETING ON 2 TO 4 MAY THE COMMUNITY SPOKESMAN SHOULD USE THE FOLLOWING POINTS:
(1) IT WAS IN THE INTEREST OF ALL PARTICIPANTS TO ACHIEVE A
MULTILATERAL ARRANGEMENT WHICH WAS THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIEVE GREATER LIBERALISATION. THE ARRANGEMENT SHOULD BE WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.
DTI say
المجعد لعماد
ALL.
(2) THERE SHOULD BE A PROGRESSIVE LIBERALISATION OF BON
COTTON TEXTILES PARTICULARLY THOSE OF INTEREST TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, OTHER THAN THOSE PRODUCTS WHICH WERE SENSITIVE FOR THE IMPORTING COUNTRIES, AND SUBJECT
/TO SPECIAL
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