§ 110. Mr. MoateTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about European Economic Community-European Free Trade Association relations.
§ Mrs. ChalkerEC/EFTA relations are excellent. Collectively the EC and EFTA are each other's most important trading partners. We fully support the efforts being made to build on the solid base of the EC's free trade agreements with individual EFTA states to develop and extend EC/EFTA relations further, in parallel with the completion of the single market.
I had a most useful meeting on the issues with EFTA ambassadors yesterday.