TNAG-2752-FCO40-3967-Organisation-for-Economic-Co-operation-and-Development-(OECD-1994 — Page 77

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(HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS CHINESE TAIPEI)'' THE TAIWANESE HAVE ACCEPTED THIS ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOW THINKING OF SENDING A LOWER- LEVEL DELEGATION THAN HITHERTO. BUT THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN PARIS HAS TOLD THE OECD THAT ONLY THE ABBREVIATED ''CHINESE TAIPEI'' WILL BE ACCEPTABLE. OTHERWISE THEY SAY THEY MIGHT NOT ATTEND. FURTHERMORE THEY SAY THEY WISH TO ESTABLISH A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OECD USING THEIR TAIWAN NOMENCLATURE AND THAT THEY ONLY AGREED TO GATT LANGUAGE RELUCTANTLY: GATT, THEY SAY, IS DIFFERENT FROM OECD.

4. THE SECRETARY GENERAL AND ALL MEMBERS WHO SPOKE (US, JAPAN, CANADA, BELGIUM, FINLAND) THOUGHT CHINA WAS PUSHING THINGS TOO FAR AND THAT OECD SHOULD STICK TO GATT LANGUAGE. ALL CONCURRED. BUT I ASKED FOR 24 HOURS TO SEEK YOUR AGREEMENT.

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5. IT WOULD BE A PITY IF CHINA REALLY DID BOYCOTT THIS FIRST WORKSHOP WITH THE OECD AND A PARTICULAR PITY SINCE IT HAPPENS TO BE IN HONG KONG. THERE MAY BE LOCAL CONTROVERSY. BUT IT IS NOT FEASIBLE FOR FOR THE UK ALONE TO BLOCK OECD PROCEDURES, NOR RIGHT FOR THIS SORT OF BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT OUT IN THE CONTEXT OF A RELATIVELY MINOR OECD WORKSHOP. UNLESS YOU OBJECT BY 1500 ON 24 SEPTEMBER, WE WILL TELL THE SECRETARY-GENERAL THAT WE ACQUIESCE.

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