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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1989
TRADE DELEGATION TO ATTEND MINISTERIAL MEETING IN TOKYO
WILL LEAD WEEK ΤΟ ATTEND
THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR JOHN CHAN, A DELEGATION OF SENIOR TRADE OFFICIALS TO TOKYO THIS AN INFORMAL MINISTERIAL MEETING.
TO FRIDAY GATHERINGS TERRITORIES WHICH ARE TRADE
THE MEETING, SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE FROM WEDNESDAY (NOVEMBER 15 TO 17), IS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF INFORMAL OF TRADE MINISTERS FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES AND ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE GATT NEGOTIATIONS,
URUGUAY
ROUND
OF
MULTILATERAL
BE ATTENDED BY
THE MEETING IS BEING HOSTED BY JAPAN AND WILL
OF
INCLUDING GATT, DELEGATIONS FROM 24 MEMBER STATES
CANADA, AUSTRALIA, COMMISSION AND SOME MEMBER STATES, SWEDEN, MEXICO, KOREA, AND THAILAND.
THE RC USA, NEW ZEALAND,
SAID THE MEETING WOULD
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRADE DEPARTMENT OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MINISTERS TO EXCHANGE VIEWS INFORMALLY ON THE URUGUAY ROUND OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.
THE MINISTERS LAST MET FORMALLY IN MONTREAL YEAR TO CONDUCT THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE URUGUAY ROUND.
IN DECEMBER LAST
BE THREE
A
OF FRANK EXCHANGE
GROUPS OF BROAD
NEW
WILL THERE THAT "IT IS EXPECTED
IN KEY PLAYERS
THE BETWEEN POSITIONS MAINTAINING AND STRENGTHENING THE GATT SYSTEM, MARKET ACCESS, AND
IN GENEVA," AREAS. THIS WILL FACILITATE PROGRESS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT HONG KONG WAS
FIRST TIME IN SUCH
INFORMAL
MEETINGS
AT
PARTICIPATING THE INVITATION
FOR THE THE OF
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
"WE ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE TO
WHICH WILL ENABLE US
ΤΟ CONTRIBUTE
FURTHER
IN PARTICIPATING
TO THE
THESE TALKS URUGUAY ROUND
NEGOTIATIONS," HE SAID.
THE OTHER
OFFICIALS GOVERNMENT
MICHAEL
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF TRADE,
DELEGATION
MR
KONG'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE GATT, MR KEITH BROADBRIDGE; AND THE KONG ECONOMIC AND TRADE REPRESENTATIVE IN TOKYO, MR LEE LAP-SUN.
CHIEF HONG
IN THE
SZE:
HONG
ARE PERMANENT
THE
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