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CENTROFORN LON 915444
RETRACT 06526 OCT
CONFIDENTIAL
ANNEX C
LONDON PRESS SERVICE
TUESDAY 26TH OCTOBER 1982
TRANSMISSION LATE ITEM (THO)
RETRACT 06526 OCT (COPY OF COI 76/27 OCTUBBER).
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ITEN TWO: UK MINISTER ON GATT
OMATIC
BY GARY HICKS, LPS. CHIEF DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
LUXEMBOURG (IPS): THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NOVEMBER MEETING OF HORLD TRADE MINISTERS IN GENEVA HAS STREGBED HERE TONIGHT 26 OCTOBER BY BRITAIN'S MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRADE, MR. PETER REES, AFTER THE: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY STILL FOUND ITSELF UNABLE TO AGREE ON A COMMON STANCE
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SCORES OF COUNTRIES ARE PREPARING TO TAKE PART IN THE TALKS TO ET HELD BETWEEN 24-27 NOVEMBER UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SENERAL AGREEMENT UN TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT), WHICH HAS THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADING SINCE 1945. AS THE WORLD'S
REGULATED: LARGEST TRADING GROUP, THE EC IS A KEY PARTICIPANT,
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COMMUNITY TRADE MINISTERS DISCUSSED THEIR APPROACH TO THE MINISTERIAL GET-TOGETHER OF GATT, THE FIRST SUCH IN TEN YEAR'S ON THE FINAL DAY OF THEIR REGULAR KONTHLY MEETING HERE. ALTHOUGH AN AGREED POSITION HAS YET TO BE HAMMERED OUT, THEIR DISCUSSIONS; ARE NOT REGARDED AS UNCONSTRUCTIVE.
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PROSPECTS
KR. REES, SPEAKING TO NEHSMEN AFTERWARDS, EXPLAINED: FOR GATT ARE MARGINALLY BETTER S A RESULT OF THE DEBATE WHICH I HOPE HAS CLEARED THE AIR''..
HE HARHED, HOWEVER, THE HORE NE DELAY GETTING AN EC PUSITION, THE LESS LIKELY WE ARE TO INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME. BUT I MUST NOT, BE. TOO GLOOMY AS THERE IS TACI ED AGREEMENT ON A HIDE RANGE OF ISSUES. REAFFIRMING HIS COUNTRY!S SUPPORT FOR GAIT,KKICH HAS PROVIDED. A. FO RUX FUR NEGOTIATIONS "LEADING TO THE REDUCTION OF TRADE *ARRIERS TO THEIR PRESENT HISTORICALLY LOW ¡TTACK IMPORTANCE TO THE
LEVELS, HE SAID: 'HE- PROCESA AND WE WANT OSITIVE COMING OUT OF IT, ALTHOUGH IT IS CLEARLY HARD GOING AT TO SEE SOKETHING
PRESENT IN, GENEVA,!!
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