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hope to persuade the Community that our

entry should not effect our Commonwealth

Immigration Rules for employment in the UK.

However present Community regulations

provide for an 13 day priority in allotting

jobs to C nationals in C member states'

labour markets over nationals from other

countries. The position of Commonwealth

immigrants is helped by anotherregulation,

that this rule of priority does not effect the

obligations of member states arising out of

special relations or existing or future

agreements with certain non-European

countries or territories based on institu-

tional ties. Our aim in negotiations will

be to secure the Community's agreement that

those Commonealth citizens whom we admit

(or have admitted) to this country for the

purgose of omgloymont, should receive

priority in the UK labour market equal to

that given in existing EEC countries to

the nationels of their former or present

comparable territories outside Europe.

TP comments on this paragraph, and the

possibility of adding to it in the light of

proposed legislation, would be welcome.J

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28. In 1967, Hong Kong officials emphasised

the point that, in their view, it would be

quite prong for Britain to regard possible

etaliation by Hong Kong as an alternative

to British action to protect the Colony.

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