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ROUTINE UK MISSION GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TEGRAM NUMBER 354

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13 JUNE 1969

ADDRESSED TO F C O TELEGRAM NUMBER 354 OF 13 JUNE REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO UKDEL OECD.

UNCTA D. PREFERENCES.

REPRESENTATIVES OF JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, U.K. AND U.S. CALLED ON PEREZ GUERRERO ON 13 JUNE AS DECIDED AT MEETING OF GEOD TRADE COMMITTEE. REED (NORWAY) ACTED AS SPOKESMAN AND STATED THAT:

(I) THE UNITED STATES WOULD TABLE THEIR LIST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN JULY:

(11) SUBSTANTIVE CONSULTATIONS WITH THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WOULD TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR:

(111) OECD AD HOC GROUP WOULD MEET ON 15 JULY AND HAD ARRANGED PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS CULMINATING IN REPORT TO TRADE COMMITTEE SESSION SCHEDULED FOR 27-29 OCTOBER:

(IV) THE REQUIRED SUBSTANTIVE DOCUMENTATION WOULD THEN BE FORWARDED TO PEREZ GUERRERO, WHO WOULD PRESUMABLY APRANGE MEETING OF SPECIAL COMMITTE SHORTLY THEREAFTER: AND:

(V) GROUP B WOULD NOT BE IN A POSITION TO AGREE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ANY NEW WORKING GROUPS AT THIRD SESSION OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE, BUT ASSUMED THAT PEREZ GUERRERO WOULD CON- TINUE WITH CONSULTATIONS WHERE APPROPRIATE AS AGREED AT SECOND SESSION. REED CONCLUDED BY EXPRESSING HOPE THAT PEREZ GUERRERO WOULD IN THE LIGHT OF THIS INFORMATION MAKE PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS

FOR THE THIRD SESSION.

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