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Conclusions

25 While we should continue to do what we can to secure the

inclusion of Hong Kong land of Portugal in other schemes, our own

(list must be 200'a

list must be determined primarily by the BBC's decision to include

We need not follow

only the Group of 77 and dependent territories.

the 10 precisely and there would be some small advantage in adding

to the list of beneficiaries Kalta, Cuba and Mongolia. As regards

the developing members of CDCD, in particular Turkey, and Israel

we shall have to defend their exclusion by explaining that we have

reached no decision that they are not developing countries, but that

(presumably doo (the para 4+)

im

their exclusion by both the EEC and the USA makes it/possible for us(alone among the major donors] to include them, whatever sympathy

we may have for their case. We can say to Taiwan that we have to

follow the EEC, but we can leave the door open for their inclusion

if the USA and Japan makes an acceptable deal with Hong Kong.

Although this may appear hard on Taiwan, we could argue that when they

were being excluded by the EEC, their inclusion in our scheme would

represent a major concession in terms of burden sharing, and this

could be justified only if all the major developing producers of

the Far Dast, including Hong Kong, were included by other major donors

in addition to the EC.

套

26.

The possibility that some developing Commonwealth countries may

be excluded from the US scheme is a considerable problem but there

seems nothing effective that can be done to redress this by excluding

any countries from our list. Nor can we compensate Hong Kong or our

other dependencies if they are excluded, except possibly in the case

of Taiwan.