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from speakers that their statements be recorded in full and ruled that the minutes should be a more complete record than usual of what was said. The minutes will therefore no doubt reveal, inter alia:

(a) the persistence (threatening to become a filibuster)

of the Greck representative;

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the long and powerful Turkish intervention; arguments, especially from Uruguay, that the GATT's provisions are largely unsuitable for the relations between developed and developing countries;

the silence of the representatives of the major developed Contracting Partios, who had agreed beforehand to leave all interventions on their behalf to Reed (Norway) unless provoked.

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