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ANGLO PORTUGUESE TALKS ON EC QUESTIONS:

30 SEPTEMBER 1982

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Dr Salguiero (Minister of Finance)

Dr Marta

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Mr Hannay

HE Mr H Byatt

Mr. Shakespeare

Miss Evans

Mr Powell

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Dr Salquiero asked how the enlargement

negotiations would progress? Mr Hannay said that

accession negotiations were always protracted and

difficult, even with a good economic climate. The

French position was not the only complicating factor.

The applicants had to keep pushing. The Community had

a genuine commitment to enlargement, which would go

forward unless there was internal disintegration. The

UK had a firmly constructive attitude. We had made it

plain from the outset that the only substantial problem

for us in relation to Portugal would be the question of

textiles and a solution had now been reached on this.

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