Assembly Debate on 28th September 1966 (13th Sitting) (seeDoc. 2114, report of the Economic Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 28th September 1966 (13th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Profoundly conscious that, in the absence of concrete progress towards a solution of the present division of Western Europe, the Kennedy Round negotiations in GATT constitute the best immediately available means of lowering barriers to trade in Europe and in the world ;
2. Noting that, if agreement is to be reached within the period left before the expiry of the US Trade Expansion Act on 30th June 1967, it is simply not practicable-even having regard to modern means of communication - for each delegation continuously to refer back to its Home Authorities before taking up a standpoint on each question which may arise,
3. Recommends to the Committee of Ministers that member Governments should pursue the Kennedy Round negotiations with the necessary sense of urgency and should therefore give their delegations to the Kennedy Round negotiations in Geneva the widest possible measure of negotiating discretion, if necessary by the inclusion of representatives having the requisite authority.
