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Mr. P.C.M.
Your telegram No.601.
E.E.C. Consultations.
We realise that reiteration of 1961 request for
Associate status has some presentational merit in
Hong Kong. But we
But we see no advantage (and possibly some
disadvantage) in putting to the Six a proposal which we
know in advance to be unacceptable. The Six's view that it
would be inappropriate to apply Part IV of the Rome Treaty
to the case of Hong Kong was made particularly clear during
the last negotiations. In our view, it will be necessary
to justify, by reference to changed circumstances, any
request on behalf of Hong Kong for more than we were asking
when the negotiations broke down in 1963.
2.
We are, of course,
anxious to take account of Hong
Kong's interests in any way we can. We take your point
Sedgwick, Hong Kong about need for safeguards against the application of
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common commercial policy, particularly in the field of
textiles, and would be prepared to consider this problem
with you in the proposed discussions.
/3. We will
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