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3. PARK PIL SOO RAISED THE QUESTION OF THE PROPOSAL TO MAKE
SPECIAL PROVISION FOR INDIA, PAKISTAN AND LATE-COMERS AT THE EXPENSE OF KOREA, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN. HE SAID THAT THE KOR- EANS WOULD CONSIDER THIS A DISCRIMINATION IN ONE PARTICULAR
FIELD WHICH WAS INCONSISTENT WITH OUR ATTITUDE IN THE CASE OF
OTHER PRODUCTS SUCH AS BLACK AND WHITE TELEVISION SETS. IN THE
LATTER CASE THE KOREANS WERE TOLD THAT THEY COULD NOT EXPECT TO
RECEIVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION. AS LATECOMERS. PARK APPEARED TO
IMPLY THAT THEY OBJECTED MOST STRONGLY NOT SO MUCH TO THE
INTRODUCTION OF THIS PRINCIPLE INTO THE TEXTILE NEGOTIATIONS AS
TO THE APPARENT INCONSISTENCY AS COMPARED WITH OUR ATTITUDE
OVER THE TELEVISIONS.
4. PARK GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT KOREA, TAIWAN AND HONG KONG WILL TAKE A COMMON LINE IN TALKS WITH THE EEC AND WILL CLAIM
THAT THE PROPOSALS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM AS A GROUP.
BATES
FRAME EXTERNAL
EID (E)
FED
HK & GD
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