Eec Ministerial Meetings

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Rhagfyr 1973.

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Photo of Mr John Davies Mr John Davies , Knutsford 12:00, 5 Rhagfyr 1973

I should like to be able to give an entirely unqualified answer, but I obviously cannot, and for very sensible reasons—that, although agreement has now been concluded, for instance, with India, there is still an outstanding arrangement to be concluded with Bangladesh, which I believe will be satisfactory from their point of view.

It is also true that, although, to a large degree, improvements in the Community arrangements under the generalised preference scheme have been finalised, there are still elements to be completed. If that were done, I could unqualifiably say that the arrangements in relation to the Community as a whole for the countries in Southern Asia would not be subject to criticism and would not be anything but an improvement in total on the arrangements which they currently have.