0001,740 G.F. 174
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The Hong Kong Government would be most
grateful if you could arrange to let them have copies of some of your reports on political and economic
developments in ..
for the use of the Hong
Kong Department of Commerce & Industry.
Letter to The Ambassador or High Commissioner in:-
Stockholm, Oslo,
Copenhagen
Bonn,
The Hague,
Rome,
Brussels,
Paris,
Djakarta,
Manilla,
Saigon,
Bangkok,
Tokyo,
Kuala Lumpur,
2.
The Department of Commerce & Industry,
which performs here functions similar to those of the
Board of Trade in London, finds itself from time to
time confronted with the urgent need to form a view
on some action or policy by a foreign government or
It is to prepare a brief for its negotiators. obviously a great help for the Department to have the
best possible information about the political and
economic factors of that country that need to be
taken into account.
Singapore,
Pretoria,
Canberra,
Wellington.
Lagos
Ottawa
(added
Vienna
by E
U.K. Delegation to EEC
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TO OFCD
3.
A secondary reason for wanting such
information is that, whilst the senior members of the
You go Department have travelled widely, many of the junior
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know
The
staff have never been out of Hong Kong.
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To read of read me? reports (from the more important markets is a
necessary part of their education.
4.
The kind of material I have in mind is the
general survey of some aspect of the political and or
economic situation which would normally be the
subject of a despatch, but there might also be the
occasional letter that might be copied to us. I do
not think that we should ever need to receive any-
thing graded higher than 'Confidential”
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