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trading services, including possible disciplines for
individual sectors. General agreement to this
represents a major concession by the hard-line
developing countries who had hitherto rejected all
notion of a negotiation.
The Group on Negotiations on
Services should meet at Ministerial level in the course
of the Round.
PARTICIPATION
10. Three points of interest:
Small Commonwealth countries had complained
that the original criteria for participation,
which required formal notification to the
GATT to be made by non-members before December,
were too stringent. They, and Commonwealth
Secretariat representatives present at Punta
del Este, seemed satisfied by the longer
time-table. It is not intended that small
countries wishing to participate should be
harried to make unduly rapid progress towards.
GATT membership.
The Soviet Union had pressed for admission to
the Round. It was agreed in private
consultations in the margins of the Ministerial
that this was not acceptable, but that the GATT
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