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3132 Aden It was provisionally agreed that Aden should be

eligible for association under Part IV of the Rome Treaty with

the addition of a protocol dealing with the export of petroleum

products from Aden to the Community. The content of this

protocol was left to be considered at a later stage, but it was

agreed that arrangements under such a protocol should be fair in

the light of arrangements which might be made with existing

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Association in a similar position.

3332 The South Arabian Federation, including Aden, is due to

become independent on 1 January 1968 and is almost certain to

leave the Commonwealth very soon afterwards. This will make

the 1962 provisional agreement obsolete, and all that will be

necessary will be to agree on the manner in which the c.e.t. is

applied to South Arabian exports to Britain. (This question

will arise on all countries except the Irish Republic

are within the Commonwealth Preference Area but outside the

Commonwealth).

who

3433. Malaysia It was agreed that the enlarged Community would

be prepared to envisage negotiations with a view to concluding a

trade agreement with Malaya and the territories which it was

planned should constitute the Federation of Malaysia, if the

latter so wished. (i.e. with Malaysia as now constituted, plus

Singapore and Brunei). It was also agreed that Malaya and

these territories should have the same gradual application of

the c.e.t. as that agreed for India, Pakistan and Ceylon (see

paragraph 24(a) above). (British requests for certain

reductions in the c.e.t. were unresolved at the breakdown of the

negotiations. These included canned pineapple, coconut oil,

palm oil, pepper, plywood and oilseeds. We were also seeking

relief for Malaysia from the agricultural levy on sago flour).

3534. We should seek to revive the provisional agreement for

Malaysia and to establish that it retains the same geographical

coverage in 1962 i.e. that it continues to apply not only to

Malaysia but also separately to Singapore and Brunei now that there'

/is no

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