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IMMEDIATE PARIS.
TELEGRAM NUMBER 393
CONFIDENTIAL
30 (NEUTRAL)
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 23 APRIL 1969
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ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER 393 OF 23 APRIL 1969 RFI TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME UKDEL EEC (BRUSSELS) BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO WASHINGTON UKDEL OECD AND SAVING TO HONG KONG
MY TEL 381 (NOT TO ALL): MR. STANS AND TEXTILES, Patents Jars and BRUNET GAVE MINISTER. (E) AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN M. DEBRE AND MR. STANS AT WHICH HE WAS PRESENT WHICH TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. HE REPORTED THAT BY THE TIME MR. STANS REACHED PARIS HE WAS OBVIOUSLY TIRED AND SOMEWHAT DISPIRITED. PERHAPS FOR THIS REASON HE DID NOT MAKE ANY DIRECT PROPOSAL FOR A SPECIAL GATT CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS U. S. DIFFICULTIES ALTHOUGH THIS WAS IMPLICIT IN WHAT HE SAID.
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MR. STANS OPENED BY DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THESE DIFFICULTIES. M. DEBRE POINTED OUT THAT FRANCE WAS EXPERI- (ENCING SIMILAR DIFFICULTIES. PARTICULARLY IN THE TEXTILE FIELD. HOWEVER FRANCE HAD TURNED ASIDE FROM THE PROTECTIONIST POLICIES WHICH SHE HAD PRACTISED IN THE PAST, HAVING BEEN GIVEN A LEAD TOWARDS LIBERALISATION BY THE U.S.A. ITSELF IN GATT. IT WOULD BE APITY IF THE U. S. A. WERE NOW TO ABJURE ITS PRINCIPLES ON LIBERALISATION. 3. MR. STANS RAISED THE QUESTION OF THE DEFICIT IN THE U. S. BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND THE NEED TO IMPROVE THE VISIBLE TRADE POSITION. M. DEBRE DREW ATTENTION TO THE IMBALANCE IN TRADE BETWEEN THE U. S. A. AND FRANCE WHICH GREATLY FAVOURED THE FORMER. HE ADDED THAT IN THE FRENCH VIEW THE DIFFICULTIES WHICH THE U.S. A. WAS ENCOUNTERING IN CORRECTING THE DEFICIT IN ITS BALANCE OF PAYMENTS WERE DUE IN NO SMALL MEASURE TO THE DISORDERLY STATE OF THE WORLD MONETARY SYSTEM (ACCORDING TO BRUNET, THIS REMARK CAUSED SOME U.S. EYEBROWS TO BE RAISED AND A MEMBER OF MR. STANS' PARTY WILL BE SEEKING CLARIFICATION OF M. DEBRE'S REMARK AT A FURTHER MEETING AT OFFICIAL LEVEL AT THE QUAI THIS AFTERNOON).
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WHEN MR. STANS TOUCHED ON THE ASP ISSUE, M. DEBRE REPLIED FIRMLY THAT HE HAD NO INTENTION OF DISCUSSING THIS SINCE IT HAD BEEN CONSIDERED VERY FULLY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KENNEDY ROUND AND IT WAS HOPED THAT A SOLUTION HAD BEEN FOUND THERE.
5. MR. STANS' PARTING SHOT WAS TO ASK WHY THE U.S. A. SHOULD BE THE ONLY DEVELOPED COUNTRY TO ADMIT FREELY FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IMPORTS OF NON-COTTON TEXTILES AND MAN-MADE FIBRES. M. DEBRE AGREED
MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM AND SUGGESTED THAT THE TWO
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