RESTRICTED
5. IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THERE COULD BE NO AGREEMENT AT THIS MEETING. AFTER A SHORT RECESS TRAN (COMMISSION) REFERRED TO THE COMMUNITY'S STATEMENT ON 5 JULY AND EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT THIS STATEMENT WOULD BE ANNEXED TO THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING OF THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE SO THAT THERE COULD BE NO MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMUNITY'S PUSITION IN THE FUTURE. THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE COMMUNITY WERE GROWING - AND THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE TO FIND WAYS TO SOLVE ITS PROBLEMS: THE UNILATERAL STATEMENT BY FRANCE HAD NOT BEEN A PUT-UP JOB. IT WAS AN EVIDENCE OF THE GROW ING CONCERN AMONG THE MEMBER STATES. THIS WAS NOT AN ULTIMATUM BY THE COMMUNITY: IT WAS A STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS AND AN INTENT TO SOLVE THEM. AN ESSENTIAL FOR THE COMMUNITY WAS STABILISATION TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN BILATERALS TO BE NEGOTIATED BY THE END OF DECEMBER. WE COULD NOT NOW AFFORD THE TIME TO REMAIN IN GENEVA
NEGOTIATING ON TEXTS.
6. LONG (CHAIRMAN TEXTILES COMMITTEE) SUMMED UP. HE SAID THAT PRACTICALLY ALL WHO HAD TAKEN THE FLOOR HAVE THE WILL FOR THE
MFA TO BE EXTENDED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. BUT IMPORTANT DIV.
ERGENCES REMAINED ON ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS. IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE
TO CLOSE THESE DIFFERENCES WITHIN A FEW DAYS AND THE TEXTILES
COMMITTEE WAS THEREFORE NOT IN A POSITION TO TEKE A DECISION ON A FUTURE MFA. ME HOPED THAT GOVERNMENTS AND DELEGATIONS WOULD
CONTINUE THEIR CONTACTS AND TRY TO FIND WAYS AND MEANS OF STA-
ISFYING THE INTERESTS OF ALL THOSE WHO WANTED TO HAVE AND MP A
TO COVER THEIR TEXTILE TRADE. THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE WOULD
MEET AGAIN AS SOON AS THIS SEEMED USEFUL.
COMMENT
7. SEEN FROM HERE TH13 SEEMS, DESPITE ALL, A GENERALLY SATIS- FACTORY OUTCOME FOR THE COMMUNITY. THE POSITION HAS NOW BEEN
MADE ENTIRELY CLEAR
ABOUT
THE WAY IN WHICH WE INTEND TO PROCEED FROM NOW ON IN THE TERMS OF OUR MANDATE AND OUR FREEDOM TO DECIDE AT THE END OF THE YEAR ABOUT A RENEWAL OF THE NFA IS INTACT. NEITHER OF THESE POINTS WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEAR IF THE TRIPARTITE TEXT OR QUOTE BRAZILIAN TEXT UNQUOTE HAD
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/BEEN