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United Kingdon Delegation to the
Zuropean Commuitiou, 28 rue Joseph II, BIUSGELSTM 4.
5 October, 1969.
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As I mention to you on the telephone I was asked by Tren on 1 October to confirm thut wo, likto the Community, would be prepared to table the illustrative list of our preference offer with UNORAD on 15 levombor, whatever line vas tekom by other participants and particularly by the Americana. 4 cpoke along the semy lines you had taken on this Pario lust woek" (UNDBL CMCD Tetegram 58 evin, ). It was clear from the way Tran apoke that the Community wore rather less firm about boing prepared to go ahoad on their own than wi Kartino had indicated in žurio (paragraph 5 of the telegram under roference).
2. Since I spoke to Tran ve huve in fact had further ovidence of the Commission's reporvations about the dopira- bility of tabling thei” offov without the Amoricand. Doninu, tio Lember of the Commission rooponsible for trade policy (but, i11opically, not directly for the UnJTD profezonen schoo) Baited oneth Christofus what our attitude would be 12 the Americans did not table can offer by 15 November. Deniau made
it very olomu tlut le who doubt::l of the windon of the Community going ahead in those civo mstances. And he hinted that the previous Community line might be changed. No doubt you will wish to disound the position on this with the Community reprezentatives at the meeting in Paris on 13 Catober. But 12. An the interiu, there is anything you would vikli un to say about our views on how the situation should be handled if the Americans do not table an offer on 15 Hovomber, would you pleaje penā us instructions.
3. Tran added, when I spoke to him on 1 October, that the dropping of the Cornulty'e offer on cotton textiles was now almost cortein, although a final deoicion had not yet beca taken.
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peeking thon about Hong Kong, Tren said that he had been very pleased to receive Jones'a personal muggention (enclosure to Jonoa'a letter of 22 beptenbar to Göldsmatti). 10, Iran, thought that socothing might be worked out along thone lines and he had already made some suggestione to Di kaitino; but it was not going to be at all easy to wel this
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