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Are there any other comments on Paragraph 77

(Agreed)

We will now take up that

Report of the Ad Hoo Sub-committee

will ask M. Royer, the

on Paragraph 3 or Artiole XXIV. Chairmen of the Sub-committee, to introduce the report of his

Committee

M. ROYER (France) (interpretation): Mr. Chairman, the first question the Sub-committee took up was whether Burma, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia could be admitted as contrecting parties to the

General Agreement

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 ce.

We asked the Delegation of the United Kingdom to throw light

four questions which are mentioned on Page 1 or Document upon the 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 territoriea mentioned above, that is, Ceylon Burma and Southern Rhodesia, as full contracting partios

to the General Agreemen

Some oonsequentiel 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 or the provisione of the Draft Charter did not correspond exactly to the intentions of the authors of the draft of the General Agrement.