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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

IN

don Khumday 22/1

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

HMG have proposed assimilation 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

1961/3 negotiations.