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LIBERAL APPROACH BUT HE ANTICIPATED DIFFICULTIES WITH OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS ON THIS PARTICULAR ASPECT. PONTOPPIDAN

EXPRESSED SURPRISE ABOUT HONG KONG SCEPTICISM OF THE COMMISSION'S LATEST PROPOSALS BUT BOTH HE AND AGERUP AGREED THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO GIVE FURTHER THOUGHT TO THE SUBJECT IN THE LIGHT

OF OUR REPRESENTATIONS,

4.

ÏT WAS IN FACT CLEAR THAT THE DANES HAVE NOT YET MADE UP

THEIR MINDS ON THEIR ATTITUDE TO CHANGES IN THE GPS. PONTOPPIDAN

MADE THE POINT SEVERAL TIMES THAT THE MATTER WOULD NOT BE

DISCUSSED AGAIN IN BRUSSELS UNTIL SEPTEMBER IMPLYING THAT THE

DAMES HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO COME TO A VIEW.

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MARSHALL CLOSED BY THANKING THE DANISH GOVERNMENT FOR

SUPPORT IN BRUSSELS ON MANY ISSUES AND EXPRESSED THE HOPE

FOR SIMILAR HELP WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR DISCUSSING CHANGES

IN THE GSP.

6, IN A SHORT SEPARATE SESSION A LARGE AMOUNT OF PAPER

INCLUDING SPEAKING NOTES, INDUSTRY PROFILES, STATISTICS ETC VAS LEFT WITH PONTOPPIDAN WHO SEEMED EAGER TO HAVE IT ALL.

7.

DODGE AND TSAO SEEMED FULLY SATISFIED WITH THE OUTCOME

OF THE DISCUSSIONS. THEY THOUGHT THEIR INTERVENTION WITH

THE DANES HAD BEEN TIMELY AND WORTHWHILE AND A USEFUL REHEARSAL

FOR THE LONG AND PROBABLY TOUGHER ROUND AHEAD OF THEM,

FCO PLEASE PASS TO HONG KONG GOVT OFFICE LONDON.

BRUSSELS PLEASE PASS COPY TO DODGE.

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