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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

27th October 1970.

for WRITTEN answer on

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

1:

How Candaydi

La/Co. Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether, in the negotiations for Great Britain to become a member of the European Economic Community, he will propose that Hong Kong should automatically acquire associate membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

association

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HMG have proposed letter for Hong Kong as for other dependent territories under Part IV of the Treaty of Rome, but Hon. Members will recall the

Community''s attitude to Hong Kong in the course of the 1961 negotiations.tid nut

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association,

1961/3

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HMG have proposed association for Hong Hong as for

other dependant territories under Part IV of the Treaty

of Rome, as a means of making adequate provision for

Hong Kong's interests. The Community have however said

that they will wish the question of Hong Kong to bo

discussed separately from that of other depondent

territories. HMG is purusing the question of the

relationship of Hong Kong with the Community in full

consultation with the Hong Kong Government.