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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1991

URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS AT CRITICAL STAGE: STI

AN

ACTIVE PART HONG KONG IS PLAYING

IN THE THE CRITICAL STAGE. NEGOTIATIONS WHICH ARE NOW AT A TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR T.H. CHAU, SAID THIS (MONDAY) MORNING.

HARD

URUGUAY ROUND SECRETARY FOR

1991, MR CHAU

UP

TO DRAW

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE INTERSTOFF ASIA NEGOTIATORS

WORKING SAID

WERE NOW

IN GENEVA AGREEMENTS THAT WOULD CONSTITUTE THE URUGUAY ROUND PACKAGE.

BE SUPPORTED BY "I DO HOPE THAT THESE REDOUBLED EFFORTS WILL

OF THE MAJOR THE NECESSARY POLITICAL WILL, ESPECIALLY ON THE PART

EARLY AND SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, AND THAT THERE WILL BE AN

MUST, OF COURSE, INCLUDE AN CONCLUSION TO THE URUGUAY ROUND WHICH AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES AND CLOTHING, HE SAID.

IT

MR CHAU SAID INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES AND BEEN SUBJECT TO RESTRAINT FOR THREE DECADES.

HE SAID THE RECENT EXTENSION

CLOTHING HAD

OF

THE MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT INTERIM MEASURE PENDING

THE

OF

WAS 1992

ONLY AN UNTIL THE END CONCLUSION OF A URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES AND CLOTHING.

"80 ARE THE RECENT EXTENSIONS OF OUR BILATERAL AGREEMENTS THE EEC, USA AND CANADA, AND OTHERS.

:

WITH

EXTENSIONS, "THESE

THOUGH

NECESSARY SINCE CERTAINTY PLANNING AND OPERATIONS," HE SAID.

IS AN

IN TRANSITIONAL

ELEMENT IMPORTANT

NATURE, IN BUSINESS

ARE

THE RULES OF

MR CHAU SAID OUR GOAL WAS TO LIBERALISE INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE AND CLOTHING TRADE GRADUALLY AND RETURN THIS SECTOR TO THE GATT.

UNIQUE

OPPORTUNITY

ΤΟ

ACHIEVE

"THE URUGUAY ROUND PROVIDES A THIS AND WE SHOULD NOT MISS IT," HE SAID.

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NEW COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES ANNOUNCED

THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE IN LONDON HAS ANNOUNCED THAT MAJOR GENERAL JOHN FOLEY, 52, IS TO BE THE NEXT COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES HONG KONG. HE TAKES OVER FROM MAJOR GENERAL PETER DUFFELL, WHO RETURNS TO THE UK ON PROMOTION TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL, IN MARCH.

GENERAL FOLEY WAS EDUCATED AT BRADFIELD COLLEGE AND STUDIED FRENCH AND SPANISH AT GRENOBLE AND MADRID RESPECTIVELY JOINING THE ARMY AS A NATIONAL SERVICEMAN IN 1959.

LATER BEFORE

/HE WAS