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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
To:-
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Secret.
Confidential.
0. H. Kemmis, Esq., Board of Trade.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
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Type 1 +
From
H. H. Stewart
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Department
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Thank you for the record you sent of
our meeting on 2 January 1969 about Hong Kong
textile exports to Sweden: This is in my
Avinmarg
opinion an accurate record of what I found
to be a very useful discussion.
have one reservation.
However, I
2. So far as I know, Mr Jordan was without
instructions from his Government when we were
considering between us the line which might
be followed on the Swedish request for restraint
when actual negotiations began. To that
extent (we were not really in a position to
reach the agreement you record in your
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paragraph 4:
3. I see that you have sent Sellers of
the Hong Kong Government office a copy of
the same record, and I am also copying this
letter to him. I imagine that he will send the
record to his Ministry when, if the Hong Kong
Government should happen to disagree with our
line, they will no doubt say so.
Presumably
there is the further possibility that the
information Mr Jordan hopes to extract in
Stockholm will be found to dictate a somewhat different negotiating line, mood to say
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is that we should not at this early stage seek to bind ourselves to any particular
conetusion on objectives and tactics.
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