Nairobi, May 12: Pakistan’s Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mir Afzal Khan, yesterday called for an end to quantitative restrictions on cotton textile exports which he said hurt his country seriously.
Mr. Khan who was addressing the plenary session of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) spoke of the plight of developing countries and said debt relief was the quickest and most effective form of providing additional assistance to such countries.
Japan told the session that though not all elements of the integrated programme seemed to be workable, they would be studied seriously from all angles. At the same time, Mr. Toshio Kimura, head of the Japanese delegation, described Dr. Kissinger’s proposal for an…