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CYPHER/CAT A

ROUTINE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NO. 403

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TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG

16 JUNE 1979

(EID)

ADDRESSED TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO. 433 OF 16 JUNE AND

TO GOVERNORS GIBRALTAR, FIJI, ST. HELENA, SEYCHELLES: HIGH COMMISSIONERS WESTERN PACIFIC, FALKLAND ISLANDS: BRITISH RESIDENT

COMMISSIONER NEW HEBRIDES: RESIDENT COMMISSIONER GILBERT AND

ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY, REPEATED FOR INFORMATION SAVING TO GOVERNORS, BAHAMAS, BERMUDA AND BRITISH HONDURAS: ADMINSTRATORS, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, MONTSERRAT AND CAYMAN ISLANDS

CONSULTATIONS WITH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES OVER NEGOTIATIONS FOR

BRITISH ENTRY TO THE E E C.

AS YOU WILL KNOW NEGOTIATIONS FOR OUR ENTRY INTO THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES WILL BEGIN THIS MONTH, THE NEGOTIATING POSITION WHICH

WE SHALL TAKE UP IS BROADLY THAT WHICH WE ADOPTED WHEN WE MADE OUR

APPLICATION IN 1967, AND IS SET OUT IN THE THEN FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. GEORGE BROWN'S STATEMENT (CMND. 3345) TO THE W EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS ON 4 JULY, 1967 (A COPY FOLLOWS BY BAG). WHILE IT IS OUR

WISH THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE MAJOR ISSUES

WHICH NEED TO BE RESOLVED, IT WOULD BE FOOLISH TO THINK THAT THE

NEGOTIATIONS WILL BE SHORT OR QUICKLY CONCLUDED,

2. THE NEGOTIATING POSITION WE ADOPTED IN 1967 IN RESPECT OF OUR DEPENDENT TERRITORIES WAS AS FOLLOWS: IN GENERAL WE HOPED THAT IT

WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR THE MAJORITY OF THEM TO BECOME ASSOCIATED

WITH THE ENLARGED COMMUNITIES UNDER PART IV OF THE TREATY OF ROME.

THIS STILL HOLDS TRUE, AND WE SEE NO REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT THE

SIX WILL NOT AGREE TO THESE ARRANGEMENTS.

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