§ Mr. Martenasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth 813W Affairs if he will give an assurance that the United Kingdom will be independently represented from the EEC at the conference later this year on energy.
Mr. James CallaghanIt is not yet clear how those who will be invited to attend the Conference on International Economic Co-operation will be selected. But I made it clear once again to the EEC Council of Ministers in Luxembourg on 7th October that we maintained the claim for separate representation which I made originally on 10th February and which I have repeated on all subsequent occasions when the matter has been discussed. Without prejudice to this claim, we continue to co-operate within the EEC on work concerned with the issues for discussion at the conference.