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RECOYED IN REGI RY No. 61
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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 385 OF 20 JULY 1977.
INFO IMMEDIATE UKREP BUESSELS
MY TELNO 378: MFA NEGOTIATIONS.
1. AT FURTHER SESSIONS OF THE ARTICLE 113 COMMITTEE ON 19 AND
20 JULY TRAN GAVE A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF THE NEGOT- IATIONS ON THE DRAFT TRIPARTITE (COMMUNITY/US/JAPAN) TEXT, WHICH WAS NOW DESCRIBED AS A POSSIBLE SET OF CONCLUSIONS OF
THE TECTILES COMMITTEE. IN THESE HE CLAIMED TO HAVE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THE REQUIREMENTS OF MEMBER STATES, PARTICULARLY WITH
RESPECT TO PARAGRAPHS 5 AND 3: A SENTENCE HAD BEEN ADDED TO PARA
4, AS A FURTHER SOP TO THE EXPORTERS AND HE CONSIDERED THAT THE
GREAT MAJORITY OF DELEGATIONS WOULD BE ABLE TO ACCEPT IT AS NOW REVISED (REVISIONS IN MIFT). THERE WAS A HARD CORE OF OPPOSITION FROM FOUR COUNTRIES: BRAZIL, EGYPT, INDIA AND PAKISTAN, WHOSE POSITION HAD BEEN HARDENED BY THE **COMMUNIT-
ISATION OF THE #FRENCH MEASURES, QUESTIONED AS TO THE
ATTITUDE OF THE OTHER IMPORTERS, TRAN SUPPOSED THAT THE COMMUNITY'S, **NATURAL ALLIES' WOULD GO ALONG WITH THE TEXT, BUT CANADA WAS IN NO POSITION TO AGREE TO IT, OR TO ANYTHING, A NORDIC PROPOSAL
TO INCLUDE IN IT A PASSAGE COVERING THEIR OWN CONCERNS HAD SO FAR
BEEN REJECTED BY THE EXPORTING COUNTRIES, BUT THE TRI PARTITE TEXT WOULD CONTAIN A PARAGRAPH 5 BIS TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE
NORDIC PREOCCUPATION.
2. THE FRENCH REITERATED THEIR REQUIREMENTS FOR A FRCERENCE IN
PARAGRAPH 5 TO THE NON-APPLICATION OF ANNEX D AND FOR A FORMULA
IN PARAGRAPH 8 MAKING RENEWAL EXPLICITLY CONDITIONAL ON THE
SATISFACTORY NEGOTIATION OF ALL THE BILATERAL AGREEMENTO.
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