GPS 553
IMMEDIATE
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CYPHER CAT A
HKK 121 1616/1
CONFIDENTIAL
14
No
.en
105
FM UKMIS GENEVA 391300Z
CONFIDENTIAL
FRAME EXTERNAL
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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 663 OF 09 DECEMBER
INFOR IMMEDIATE UKREP BRUSSELS
GATT TEXTILES COMMITTEE: FOLLOWING FROM DELEGATION
YOUR TELNO 383
1. THE COMMISSION (KLARIC) REPORTED ON THE INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS
WHICH HAD TAKEN PLACE AS FORESHADOWED IN OUR TELNO 659 AMONG
IMPORTING AND EXPORTING COUNTRIES AND BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS. KLARIC SAID THE TEXT OF A PROTOCOL WHICH SEEMED TO BE EMERGING FROM THESE DISCUSSIONS WAS ESSENTIALLY AS IN W/44 BUT INCLUDING AN EXPANSION OF PARA 5 TO INCORPORATE THE ELEMENTS DESCRIBED IN A,
B AND C OF PARA 2 OF OUR TUR. A PROVISIONAL TEXT OF THE REVISED PARA 5 WAS CIRCULATED BUT IT WAS MADE CLEAR THAT THIS WAS SUBJECT TO FURTHER REVISION: IN PARTICULAR THE PRECISE FORM OF THE REFERNCE TO THE TSB'S ROLE, WHICH WAS OF KEY IMPORTANCE TO THE COMMUNITY, HAD NOT BEEN SETTLED.
2. WHEN PRESSED BY MEMBER STATES TO GIVE DETAILS OF THE TIMETABLE OF EVENTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE IMPLICATIONS OF ACTION IN GENEVA FOR THE COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON 23 DECEMBER, KLARIĆ REVEALED THE COMMISSION'S INTENTION TO TAKE ITS RESPONSIBILITIES IN ACCEPTING (AND PROBABLY ACTING AS CO-SPONSOR OF) SUCH A TEXT AT THE RESUMED MEETING OF THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE SCHEDULED FOR LATER IN THE DAY.
3. FRANCE (MOUTON) EXPRESSED HIS CONCERN AT THIS REGRETTABLE
HASTE WHICH, IN THE VIEW OF HIS AUTHORITIES IN PARIS, WOULD INEVITABLY PREJUDICE THE DECISION, TO BE TAKEN BY MINISTERS
/ON THE