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marked change since 1962.

23. West Indian Ministers are now giving

careful study to the question of associa-

tion with the EEC. They are concerned that

certain specific commodities sugar and

bananas- may not be adequately safeguarded

by an association agreement.

24. Our aim should be to secure from the

Six:

(a) confirmation that the provisional

agreements reached in 1962 can

be carried forward in spite of

the change in the constitutional

status of some of the countries

concerned;

(b) an assurance that (a) extends to

Malawi and Zambia who were part

of the Central African Federation

on which no decisions were taken

during the 1962 negotiations;

(c) an assurance that the alternatives

mentioned in the provisional

agreement are also open to develop:

ing Commonwealth countries outside

Africa and the Caribbean which

have a "comparable economic

structure and production" and have

either become independent i.e.

Mauritius, or are likely to

become so in the foreseeable

future e.g. Fiji, Tonga and West

Samoa.

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(d) fan assurance that the CET should

not be applied, up to and during

the period of negotiation for

association, to those countries

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