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had begun to work out some ideas in
relation to Hong Kong and the latest
position was reported in Codel telegram No.
the
299 of 19 November, which/Hong Kong delegatio
would have seen.
2.
Sir David Trench said that the aim of
the Hong Kong Government was to see that
the territory did not end up with terms
worse than those given to her competitors.
They hoped that the UK would not abandon
the application for associate status under
Part IV of the Treaty of Rome. He also
thought that there was a close link between
our application for membership and the
Generalised Preference Scheme. Sir C.O'Neill
said that we had certainly not abandoned
the application for association, even though
we didnot think it very likely that we
should get it. For the time being this
had been put on one side. He said that the
Communit
on
Commission had their own rigid doctrines for
a variety of subjects; one of these was
as a general rule,
that the dependent
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territories of members
were entitled to special relations with
the Community.
some dafree
Consequently the Six felt
a sengé of embarrassment at not being able
to offer association to Hong Kong. Sir
David Trench said that if Hong Kong were
offered association it would certainly not
turn it down. Sir John Cowperthwaite
asked whether Britain's acceptance of the
/associate
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