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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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