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IMMEDIATE CODEL BRUSSELS TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELNO 141 · 20 OCTOBER 1970

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ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS

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MEETING OF COMMITTEE OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES: 19 OCTOBER

WE HAVE RECEIVED SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DISCUSSION ON ENLARGEMENT

IN THE COMMITTEE OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES ON 19 OCTOBER.

TARIFF QUOTAS.

2. THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ON WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE

FOR THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE AN INITIAL RESPONSE TO OUR TARIFF

QUOTA REQUESTS AT THE MEETING OF DEPUTIES ON 21 OCTOBER

SOME PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES WERE IN FAVOUR OF SPEAKING THEN

EVEN THOUGH ALL THE MAIN POINTS OF THE COMMUNITY POSITION HAD

NOT YET BEEN AGREED. (WE ARE TOLD THAT THE MAIN UNRESOLVED POINTS RELATE TO LEAD AND ZINC AND THE UNWILLINGNESS OF THE MEMBER STATES WHO HAVE RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO THESE PRODUCTS, UNDER THE LIST & PROTOCOLS TO GIVE THESE UP) IT WAS FINALLY

DECIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMUNITY SHOULD NOT RESPOND TO

OUR REQUESTS UNTIL THEIR POSITION WAS CLEAR AND WOULD NOT

THEREFORE BE READY TO SAY ANYTHING ON 21 OCTOBER. IT IS NOT

ENTIRELY EXCLUDED THAT THE DISAGREEMENTS IN THE COMMUNITY

POSITION WILL BE RESOLVED BY THE TIME OF THE MINISTERIAL MEETING ON 27 OCTOBER AND THAT THE. COMMUNITY WILL BE IN A POSITION TO

SAY SOMETHING THEN.

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3. ON GIBRALTAR THERE WAS AGREEMENT THAT THE TERRITORY SHOULD

BE COVERED BY ARTICLE 227:4: BUT THAT THERE WOULD NEED TO BE

FURTHER DISCUSSION WITH US ON THE PROPOSAL THAT ITS FREE

PORT FACILITIES SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITHIN COMMUNITY ARRANGEMENTS.

ON HONG KONG, IT WAS MERELY AGREED THAT THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS: AND NO COMMUNITY POSITION WAS REACHED

ON HOW THE CONSIDERATION OF HONG KONG SHOULD BE CARRIED FORWARD.

THE FRENCH DELEGATION ALSO STATED THAT FRANCE MUST JOIN WITH

THE UK IN THE APPLICATION FOR ASSOCIATION UNDER PTIV FOR THE

NEW HEBRIDES. WITH REGARD TO THE OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORIES,

SOME REFERENCE WAS MADE TO THE PROBLEM OF TAX EVASION IN CONNECTION

WITH CERTAIN OF THE WEST INDIAN TERRITORIES. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT

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