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for the moment to Tran and Derek Jones in Geneva to discuss the practical issues, as has been arranged, after which we shall consider Tran's request that we should start to apply more pressure on the Commission and on member governments. me while I was in Geneva to make this request.
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4. My feeling therefore is not to ask you to raise the questions
When further on either a formal or informal level at this stage. progress in OECD becomes possible there could be advantage in putting our questions to the Commission both in the Ad Hoc Group and in Brussels so that their public replies can be supplemented with fuller private information; I should then like to seek your help. Questions which the Commission may wish to raise with us about U.K. submission are on the other hand best dealt with by our delegation to the Ad Hoc Group.
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Incidentally in the final paragraph of your letter you refer to alternative levels within the Commission as consisting of Di Lartino and of Tran. The question occurs to me of what contribu- tions are made by people such as Schoffer who, like Di Martino, is in the Directorate General or External Relations or Stakhovitch in the D.G. of External Commerce or Bonfatti 'in the D.G. of Industrial Affairs, all of whom were in the Commission delegation in Geneva last week. Tran told me that his responsibilities in the Commission were primarily commodity policy but that because of his Asian origin Di Martino had asked him to work on Asian
The problems in this preferences scheme including Hong Kong. information he has given you on general issues of the Commission's proposals has certainly been accurate and well informed but I wonder whether he is personally concerned with the formation of policy in this field except on the particular problem of Hong Kong.
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