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Volume #16 - 429.

CHAPTER IV

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES

PART 2

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

SECTION A

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

SUB-SECTION I

FOURTH SESSION OF CONTRACTING PARTIES FEBRUARY 23 APRIL 3, 1950

429.

DEA/9100-X-40

Memorandum from Under Secretary of State for External Affairs
to Prime Minister

[Ottawa], January 25th, 1950

CANADIAN DELEGATION TO FOURTH MEETING OF COUNTRIES MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

Pursuant to a decision taken at their Third Session which was held at Annecy, last summer, the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will hold their Fourth Session at Geneva, beginning February 23. It is expected that the Session will last four to five weeks.

I would recommend, subject to your concurrence, that the following officials who have been nominated by the Deputy Ministers concerned should compose the Canadian Delegation:

Department of External Affairs.

Chairman:

Mr. L.D. Wilgress, High Commission for Canada in the United Kingdom

Mr. Louis Couillard, Economic Division.

Department of Finance.

Department of Trade and Commerce. Mr. H.R. Kemp, Director, Commercial Relations and Foreign Tariffs Division Mr. C.M. Isbister, Director, International Trade Relations.14

>A.D.P. H[EENEY]


14Approuvé par le Cabinet, le 1 février 1950./Approved by Cabinet, February 1, 1950.



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