TALKS ON E.E.C.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29899, 13 August 1962, Page 9

TALKS ON E.E.C.

‘Demand Bv Premiers’ (NX. Preus Assn—Copyright) LONDON. August 11. The British Government has been asked to call a second conference of Commonwealth Prime Minister for Common Market talks, the "Daily Express" reported today. This was "because of the vagueness of the terms” brought back from Brussels by Britain's chief negotiator, Mr Eduard Heath. The “Daily Express" said Commonwealth representatives in London had told Mr Health there was little for present discussion in the draft agreement on food exports from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The newspaper said some suspected Britain was "secretly pleased" no definite agreement had been made because now she could not be accused of “selling out their interests.” The Commonwealth Prime Ministers will meet in London from September 10. Mr Macmillan had hoped to present to the conference terms of British entry to the market. The "Daily Express” said the incomplete arrangements on semperate food exports applied only to gram and "this is only a small proportion of the Commonwealth’s food trade." Even the assurances New Zealand would be treated as a special case had little value because the market's agricultural policy gave little scope for sales of cheap imported butter. “And the promises that the Common Market countries will consult with the Commonwealth if it has been impossible to reach world agreements for trade in food by 1970 are described as polite blackmail,” the newspaper said. The “Daily Express" did not mention any date for a second meeting of Commonwealth leaders.

Independence Move At U.N.

(N.Z P A .-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK. August 10.

The United Nations Spec.al Committee on Colonialism today over-rode strong Wertern objections and agreed to ask the General Assembly to support “immediate independence" for Portugal’s vast East African territory, Mozambique. Britain, the United States. Australia and Italy voted against the draft resolution, and Uruguay abstained.

All the other 12 members, including Russia and India, voted in favour of it. A separate vote to have the Security Council consider sanctions against Portugal if she did not change her stand on the African territory won by 11 votes to four, with two abstentions.