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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 118 OF 14 FEBRUARY 1978
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INFO IMMEDIATE UKREP BRUSSELS AND ROUTINE PARIS BMG BERLIN, WARSAW AND BUDAPEST.
MY TELNO 18 TO FCO (NOT TO ALL) EEC-BERLIN: BILATERAL TEXTILE NEGOTIATIONS: HUNGARY.
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1. BRAUNMUEHL (FRG) TOLD US LATE ON 13 FEBRUARY THAT THE FEDERAL GERMAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATION IN BRUSSELS HAD REPORTED THAT
THE HUNGARIAN NEGOTIATOR HAD ASKED WHETHER THE COMMUNITY WAS PREPARED TO GIVE IN WRITING THE ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE COMMUNITY NEGOTIATOR ORALLY THAT THE TEXTILE AGREEMENT WOULD
BE WITHOUT EFFECT ON THE STATUS OF THE TERROTORY IN WHICH
IT APPEARED.
2. AT A BONN GROUP MEETING THIS AFTERNOON (14 FEBRUARY) BRAUNMUEHL CONFIRMED THAT THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE HAD BEEN APPROVED
BY HERR GENSCHER FOR USE IN AN AGREED MINUTE:
QUOTE AS REGARDS THE CLAUSE OF APPLICABILITY, THE MEANING
OF WHICH IS KNOWN, BOTH SIDES AGREE THAT NOTHING IN THE
TREATY AFFECTS THE LEGAL STATUS OF ANY TERRITORY TO WHICH
THE TREATY IS APPLICABLE. UNQUOTE.
BRAUNMUEHL ADDED THAT GENSCHER HAD MADE IT CLEAR THAT
WE COULD NOT AGREE TO THIS STATEMENT'S BEING GIVEN A MORE FORMAL STATUS THAN THAT OF AN AGREED MINUTE, NOR TO ANY WATERING
DOWN OF ITS LANGUAGE.
3. EYERS INDICATED THAT THIS LANGUAGE WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO
YOU WITH THE SUBSTITUTION OF QUOTE CAN AFFECT UNQUOTE FOR QUOTE AFFECTS UNQUOTE (TELECON EYERS/RICHARDS). THIS CHANGE WAS ACCEPTABLE TO THE GERMANS. THE FRENCH RAISED
NO OBJECTION TO THE CRIGINAL LANGUAGE OR TO OUR PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
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