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Mr. Donnelly
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will make a statement regarding the specific steps that Her Majesty's Government are now taking to expand East-West trade.
Mr. Amory
Her Majesty's Government have actively encouraged visits by business men to Moscow and we are studying Mr. Kabanov's list of Soviet requirements. We shall be sending a representative to the meeting in April at Geneva of experts on East-West trade, which has been arranged by the Economic Commission for Europe. Trade and financial negotiations with Poland began today and will start shortly with Hungary and, at a date to be agreed, with Czechoslovakia.