6. THE TEXT BEFORE US MAKES TWO REFERENCES TO THE COMPETENCE OF THE MEAX INSTITUTIONS. IN ORDER TO AVOID LATER MISUNDERSTANDING, THE COMMUNITY WISHES TO PUT ON RECORD ITS CLEAR UNDERSTANDI OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THESE ORGANS AND PARTICULARLY THE TSD. IT IS WE BELIEVE COMMON GROUND AMONG PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES THAT
THE TSB IS CONCIEVED OF AS AN ORGAN OF CONCILIATION. IT IS TIUS
TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM ARBITRAL OR JUDICIAL BODIES. IT THEREFORE GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT, WHILST FULLY SUBSCRIBING TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE113 THE COMMUNITY COULD NOT ACCEPT THAT THE
ACTIONS REFERRED TO THEREIN INCLUDES PUTTING INTO QUESTION THE
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BY ANY IMPORTING PARTICIPANTS WITH ANY EXPORTING PARTICIPANTS.
7. IN CONCLUSION, SINCE THIS IS THE LAST TEXTILES COMMITTEE HEETING UNDER THE PRESENT PFA, THE COMMUNITY WISHES TO PLACE ON RECORD ITS APPRECIATION OF THE WORK PERFORMED BY
A) THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE
B) THE CHAIRMAN AND HIS ASSISTANTS OF THE TSB AS WELL AS
C) THE VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE SECRETARIAT, ALL OF WHOM HAVE SHOWN UNDERSTANDING FOR THE COMMUNITY'S CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTIES OVER PAST FOUR YEARS.
8. THE COMMUNITY, AND IN PARTICULAR THE COMMISSION AS NEGOTIATOR ALSO WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING SHOWN BY THE COMMUNITY'S TRADING PARTENERS AND ESPECIALLY BY - NUMEROUS EXPORTING COUNTRIES WHO RESPONDED RAPIDLY TO THE COMMUNITY'S REQUEST TO COME TO BRUSSELS AND TRY TO SOLVE TOGETHER THE VERY SEVERE PROBLEMS THAT HAVE ARISEN. THESE NEGOTIATIONS ARE NOW, IN LARGE MEASURE, ACCOMPLISHED AND THE RESULTS ACHIEVED BOTH BILATERALLY AND MULTILATERALLY WILL DE CONSIDERED WITHIN
THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER RAPIDLY TO DETERMINE THE LATTER'S POSITION
ON RENEWAL OF THE MFA,
FCO ADVANCE TO:
FCO- BUTLER, JENKINS,
JENKINS, STERN
DOI- RIDLEY, HUDSON, MISS LOWNE, FARRY
DOT- GRAY, ABRAMSON, HELLINGS, MIS MACFARLENE CAB- FRANKLIN, MAINS
ODM BUIST, BAXTER
TSY- MICHELL
BOTTOMLEY
FRAME EXTI RNAL
FRAME ECONOMIC
EID (E)
HK & GD MR MURRAY
[ADVANCED AS REQUESTED]
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