	ec links agricultural  talks to other reform the european community ec considers talks on agricultural  reform to be inseperable from talks on other  reform in the present gatt round willy de clercq external relations commissioner of the ec said he told reporters here the ec would not bow to pressure to reach an early seperate agreement on agricultural  he said the ec wanted to stick to the four year schedule agreed by members of the general agreement on tariffs and  gatt in punta del este uruguay last year that included agricultural  liberalisation for the first time in the lengthy program to re negotiate the gatt other  issues being discussed in the current gatt round include reform of  in merchandise and services de clercq is on his way to china after attending a two day conference for gatt  ministers held in new zealand several of those ministers criticised the ec for what they saw as restrictive agricultural  practices and called for urgent reforms u s  representative clayton yeutter also said it was important agreement on agricultural  reform was reached as early as possible but de clercq said the gatt program had been reached after long and hard negotiations and the ec did not want changes we just want to stick to the agreement which was reached and that was very clear that the new round would be one undertaking it is a global negotiation with no two tracks no fast track no slow track it has just one track the track and that s all de clercq said if you start selecting priorities your priority is not my priority we say that agriculture is urgent but it s not the only urgent thing he said he said the punte del este agreement had taken eight months to prepare and eight days of negotiations reuter 
