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Director-General would informally brief all
non-participants on the progress of
negotiations.
Hints that non-aligned LDCs might press for
South Africa's exclusion from the new round did
not materalise: despite some aggressive talk
along these lines at the beginning of the
Ministerial from Nigeria and Jamaica, the LDCs
came to realise that it would be impossible for
them to achieve this without wrecking the
conference.
JAPAN
11.
The EC obtained a separate statement by Iglesias,
the Chairman of the Conference, to which Japan
reluctantly agreed in advance, acknowledging the
necessity of broadly-based action to remove the major
disequilibria in the world economy, and the need for
these to be tackled by various policy means, including
macro-economic policy, exchange rates, structural
reform and trade policy. This statement will help to
maintain pressure on Japan to increase its imports.
12.
Copies of the Declaration, the statement in
paragraph 11, and the Commission's statement at the
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CONCLUSION