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IMMEDIATE TOKYO
TELEGRAM NO. 241
CONFIDENTIAL
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ΤΟ FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
14TH MAY, 1969.
CONFIDENTIAL. NEUTRAL/
ADDSD TO F.C.0. TELMO 241 OF 14/5 R.F.1. TO HONG KONG WTOM UKDEL BRUSSELS UKMIS GENEVA AND SEOUL AND SAVING TO PARIS BONN ROME
BERNE BRUSSELS AND THE HAGUE.
M.1.P.T.
STANS VISIT.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL IN THE ECONOMIC AFFAIRS BUREAU OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SUMA, TOLD COMMERCIAL COUNSELLOR ON 14 MAY THAT PRESS REPORTS WERE GENERALLY ACCURATE.
2. SUMA STRESSED THAT THE JAPANESE STAND ON TEXTILES HAD BEEN FIRM, MR. AICHI, THE FORTEGN MIN, HAD FLATLY DECLINED STANS PROPOSALS FOR A GATT CONFERENCE AS HE SAW NO REASON WHY ONE WAS NEEDED. STANS HAD SAID THAT TWO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (ACCORDING TO SUMA, GERMANY AND ITALY) HAD INDICATED THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT SUCH A PROPOSAL BUT THIS HAD NO EFFECT ON THE JAPANESE. THE JAPANESE WERE VERY MUCH AFRAID THAT ANY VOLUNTARY CONTROL OF EXPORTS WOULD SOON SPREAD TO OTHER FIELDS. ON TEXTILES THE ONLY RESULT HAD BEEN THAT THE JAPANESE HAD AGREED TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION ON THE OFFICIAL LEVEL. A FIRST MEETING HAD BEEN HELD IN TOKYO ON 13 MAY. NOTHING NEW EMERGED BUT THERE WOULD BE FURTHER EXCHANGES THROUGH THE
DIPLOMATIC CHANNEL.
TO`SUMA,
3. ACCORDING TO SUMA, WHEN STANS CALLED ON OHIRA, THE MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY, THE LATTER HAD DRAWN STANS ATTENTION TO THE U.S. TRADE EXPANSION LAW WITH ITS SPECIAL PROVISIONS
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