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TO PRIORITY F C O TEL NO. CODEL 813 CF 36 OCTOBER ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS

GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME AND COTTON TEXTILES FOLLOWING FROM DENMAN

1. I DISCUSSED WITH WELLENSTEIN, WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIJZEN, ERNST AND DI MARTINO, THE BACKGROUND TO THE STATEMENT WHICH WE ARE CONSIDERING MAKING AT THE MEETING OF DEPUTIES ON 12 CCTOBER WITH RESPECT TO THE GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME AND TO COTTON TEXTILES.

2. ON THE GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME ITSELF, WELLENSTEIN SAID THAT THE COMMISSION THOUGHT IT PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE THAT WE AND THE OTHER CANDIDATE COUNTRIES SHOULD PUT OFF OUR ADAPTATION TO THE COMMUNITY'S GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME UNTIL 1 JANUARY 1974. HE ACCEPTED OUR ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THIS AS BEING ENTIRELY VALID. AND HE WELCOMED CUR INTENTION TO MAKE THIS STATEMENT, PARTICULARLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECENT DANISH REQUEST FOR'A 2 YEAR DELAY. THE COMMISSION REGARDED THE LATTER REQUEST AS MOST UNHELPFUL AND THEY WOULD SEEK TO ENSURE THAT ALL 4 CANDIDATES VERE GIVEN THE SAME PERICO.

3. ON COTTON TEXTILES THE MAIN POINTS WHICH EMERGED WERE: (A) BRINGING UP THE DATE OF OUR ADAPTATION TO THE COMMUNITY'S

GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME MOHD KLEVITAR V Da