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Are there any other comments on Paragraph 7?

(Agreed)

We will now take up the Report of the Ad Hoc Sub-committee.

on Paragraph 3 of Article XXIV I will ask M. Royer, the

Chairman of the Sub-committee, to introduce the report of his

Committee.

M. ROYER (France) (interpretation): Mr. Chairman, he first

question the Sub-committee took up was whether Burma, Ceylon and

Southern Rhodes be

admitted as contracting parties to the

Te did not consider the question as to whether the present

state of negotiations for these countries was sufficient to allow

them to participate as contracting parties to the General

Agreement, because this question was beyond our terms of referm cs.

We asked the Delegation of the United Kingdom to throw light

upon the four questions which are mentioned on Page 1 of Document

T/198 and the United Kingdom Delegation gave answers to these four

questions. The se answers were confirmed in a letter sent on

September 15 by the Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the

Executive Secretary to the Trade and Employment Conference.

In the light of the information which we obtained from the

United Kingdom Delegation, the Sub-committee decided to recommend

the admission of the three territories mentioned above, that is, Ceylon, Burma and Southern Rhodesia, as full contracting parties

to the General Agreement

Some consequential ohanges had to be made to the draft of the Agreement, so that the provisions could fit into the framework of the General Agreement. We thought the automatic reproduction of the provisions of the Draft Charter did not correspond exactly to the intentions of the authors of the draft of the General Agreement.