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1 RESTRICTED GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 28 October 1964 Limited Distribution COUNCIL October 1964 MEMBERSHIP OF.THE COUNCIL AND APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES (as at 28 October 1964) 1. Forty contracting parties and five governments which have acceded provisionally have accepted the responsibilities of membership in the Council. Of these the following forty-two governments have nominated permanent representatives-on the -Council: ARGENTINA Dr. Vicente Enrique Marquez, Minister Counsellor, Chargé,d'Affaires (a.i.) to the Mr. Fernando G. Lerena, Economic Counsellor, Permanent Mission to t he in AUSTRALIA Mr. P.P. Donovan, Minister (Commercial), Permanent Mission to the European AUSTRIA H.E. Mr. E. Treu, European Office of the United Nations Mr. Rudolf Martins, Counsellor of Legation, Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction BELGIUM H.E. Mr. R. Rothschild, Embassy in Bern Mr. Robert De Smaele, Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade

2 Page 2 BRAZIL Mr. A.T. Valladao, Minister, Mr. Sérgio Luiz Portella de Aguiar, First Secretary of Embassy, CAMEROON Mr. Henri Effoudou, Commercial Attaché, Embassy in Bonn CANADA Mr. J.H. Warren, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Trade and Commerce H.E. Mr. S.P. Rae, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Office of the United Nations Mr. M.C. Sakellaropoulo, Counsellor (Economic), Permanent Mission to the European CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Mr. Pierre Kalck, Economic Counsellor, Embassy in Paris CHILE H.E. Mr. F. Garcia Oldini, Plenipotentiary in Switzerland Mr. Fernando Cisternas, Secretary of Embassy CUBA H.E. Dr. E. Camejo-Argudin, Plenipotentiary, Head of the Permanent Mission to the

3 Page CZECHOSLOVAKIA Mr. Vojtech Homola, Economic Counsellor, Permanent Mission to the European DENMARK H.E. Mr. N.V. Skak-Nielsen,' in FINLAND H.E. Mr. R.I. Honkaranta, Permanent Delegate to the FRANCE Mr. Albert Balensi, Permanent Delegate to GATT GHANA Mr. B.A. Konu, M.P., Deputy Minister of Trade GREECE Mr. A. Petropo los, Permanent Delegate to the in (a.i.) INDIA H.E. Mr. K.B. Lall, Plenipotentiary to Belgium INDONESIA H.E. Mr. Mohamad Nazir, Plenipotentiary to Switzerland ISRAEL H.E. Mr. M. Bartur, Permanent Delegate to the European Mr. Klaus Snellman, First Secretary, - Mr. Moerad Astrawinata, Chief Senior Official, Department of Finance

4 Page 4 JAMAICA Mr. B.B. Powell, Commercial Counsellor, -- Office of the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom JAPAN H.E. Mr. Morio Aoki, Permanent Delegate to the in LUXEMBURG Mr. Albert Duhr, Chief of the Division of Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade MADAGASCAR Mr. Armand Razafindrabe, European Economic Community, Brussels MALAYSIA Inche Sujak Bin Rahiman, Controller, Trade Division, Ministry of Commerce and Industry MAURITANIA The Embassy in Bad-Godesberg KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS Mr. M.H. van Wijk, Head of the Division of International Organizations, Directorate-General of Foreign Economic Relations NEW ZEALAND Mr. K.L. Press, Minister, Deputy Head of the Mission to the European Economic Community, Brussels NORWAY H.E. Mr. Sbren Christian Sonmerfelt, Head of the Permanent Delegation to the international organizations Mr. Fumihiko Suzuki, Counsellor, in Inche Masaruddin Bin Mohammed, Deputy Controller, Ministry of Commerce and Industry Mr. Yeo Beng Poh, Commercial Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom

5 PAKISTAN Mr. G.Yusuf Khan, Commercial Secretary, Embassy of Pakistan, Rome PERU H.E. Mr. Edwin Letts, Permanent Delegate to the Page 5 PORTUGAL H.E. Mr. Ruy Teixeira Guerra, Plenipotentiary to Switzerland Mr. Pedro Madeira de Andrade Embassy in Bern SOUTH AFRICA H.E. Mr. H.H. Woodward, Plenipotentiary to Switzerland SOUTHERN RHODESIA Mr. W.C. Hawes, Counsellor (Economic) and Senior Trade Commissioner, Office of the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom SWEDEN H.E. Mr. Erik von Sydow, Plenipotentiary European and in SWITZERLAND Mr. A. Weitnauer, Minister, Delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements Mr. R.W. Dell, Assistant Secretary (Foreign Trade), Ministry of Trade Industry and Development Mr. L. Rydors, Counsellor, European and the Mr. Adolphe Schnebli, First Chief of Section in the Trade Division Mr. Klaus Jacobi, Trade Division TUNISIA H.E. Mr. Zouhir Chelli, European

6 Page 6 TURKEY Mr. Tayyar Emre, Permanent Representative to GATT UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC Mr. Mahmoud Hamza, Commercial Minister, Permanent Mission to GATT UNITED KINGDOM H.E. Sir Edgar Cohen, K.C.M.G., Permanent Delegate to GATT UNITED STATES Mr. John W. Evans, Minister for Economic Affairs, Mission to the international organizations Mr. Herbert F. Propps, Counsellor for Economic Affairs, Mission to the international organizations Mrs. D. Whitnack, Economic Officer, Mission to the URUGUAY H.E. Mr. Julio A. Lacarte, Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Germany YUGOSLAVIA H.E. Mr. S. Kopeok, European Office of the United Nations Mr. Pablo Bosch, Consul General Dr. Djordje Kosanovic Counsellor, European Office of the United Nations

7 Page 7 2. The following three members of the Council have not nominated permanent representatives : Federal Republic of Germany Italy Nigeria J. The Commission of the European Economic Community has nominated the following representative and alternate: Mr. T.H. Hijzen, Director, Directorate-General of External Relations Mr. Pierre Schlosser, Chief of Division, Directorate-General of External Relations

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