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CONFIDENTIAL

IMMEDIATE UKDEL EC BRUSSELS TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NO. 319

14 JULY 1970

CONFIDENTIAL

NEUTRAL

ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH CFFICE TELEGRAM NO. 319

OF 14 JULY 1973 REPEATED FOR INFORMATION PRIORITY TO UKMIS GENEVA (FOR JONES) SAVING TO BONN THE HAGUE PARTS ROME BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE)

YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 92 AND HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO. 461.

COTTON TEXTILES: HONG KONG/E.E.C.

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WE MADE A JOINT APPROACH TO ERNST. DODGE HANDED OVER HIS LETTER

AND MINISTER SPOKE ON THE LINES OF YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 87 ~

2. ERNST'S IMMEDIATE REACTION WAS TO DESCRIBE WHAT WE HAD

SAID AS QUOTE CONSTRUCTIVE UNQUOTE. HE SAID THAT HE AGREED

WITH THE PRINCIPLES WHICH WE HAD CUTLINED: AND HE UNDERTOOK TO

MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WITHIN THE NEXT

FEW DAYS ALL THE RELEVANT STATISTICS WHICH HE HAD.

3. ERNST THEN SPOKE ABOUT JUSTIFICATION. HE SAID THAT THE POSITION

ON COTTON TEXTILES WAS DIFFERENT FROM THAT ON NON-COTTON TEXTILES.

IN THE CASE OF COTTON TEXTILES THE TERMS OF THE COTTON TEXTILES ARRANGEMENT WERE RELEVANT. AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE TERMS

OF THIS ARRANGEMENT, HE HOPED AND BELIEVED THAT, WHEN THE PROMISED STATISTICS HAD BEEN CONSIDERED BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT,

THEY WOULD AGREE THAT IT WAS IN THEIR INTERESTS TO OPEN ARTICLE

4 NEGOTIATIONS.

4. ERNST ALSO OFFERED TO PRODUCE WITH THESE STATISTICS A MORE

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51 15 JUL 1770

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