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Report of the sub-Committee which establishes to our satisfacr the fact that Burma, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia are, in f

fac independent in commercial matters and are entitled to stand a footing of equality with the rest of us We therefore wish to welcome the addition of these territories to this Committee to participate with the rest of us as potential contracting parties on the basis of independence and equality.

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his suggestion that if the Report is adopted these countries invited to sit with us as full contracting parties.

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I therefore take it that the Committee. accepts the recommend ations of the sub-Committee and that Burma, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia, according to their status, de jure, or de facto can admitted to participation es full contracting parties to the General Atresment on Tariffs and Trade.

necessary for us to give effect to the changes

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the General Agreement consequent upon the adoption of this recommendation. The first will be the removal of the brackets in the first paragraph of the Final Act and in the Preamble to the General Agreement surrounding the words Burna, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia.

Is that agreed? Agreed.

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