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IMMEDIATE UKDEL/EC
TELEGRAM NO. 335
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
DATED 9 JULY 1979
RECEIVED IN
REGISTRY No. 51
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10 JU! 1970
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ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TEL NO. 305 OF
9 JULY 1973 AND REPEATED FOR INFORMATION IMMEDIATE TO UKMIS
GENEVA (FOR JONES) AND HONG KONG AND ROUTINE TO BONN THE HAGUE
PARIS AND SAVING TO ROME AND BRUSSELS.
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 87. HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO. 448, UKMIS GENEVA
TELEGRAM TO HONG KONG NO. 32, AND BRUSSELS TELEGRAM TO
HONG KONG NO. 22.62
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COTTON TEXTILES HONG KONG/E.E.Č.
IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THE INSTRUCTIONS CONTAINED IN YOUR
TELEGRAM NO. 87 ARE CONTINGENT UPON DODGE'S REPLY TO THE
COMMISSION, A PROPOSED TEXT FOR WHICH (BRUSSELS TO HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NO. 22) IS STILL WAITING CLEARANCE FROM HONG KONG,
WE HAVE NOT YET CARRIED OUT THESE INSTRUCTIONS. MEANWHILE THERE
MAS BEEN ONE FURTHER COMPLICATION AT THE BRUSSELS END AND
WE HAVE NOW SEEN UKMIS GENEVA TELEGRAM NO. 30 TO HONG KONG.
2. THE NEW COMPLICATION AT THE BRUSSELS END IS THAT WELLENSTEIN,
FORMERLY DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR TRADE POLICY AND THUS ERNST'S
SUPERIOR, WITH WHOM WE HAD HOPED TO CARRY OUT THESE INSTRUCTIONS,
HAS NOW BEEN APPOINTED LEADER AT THE OFFICIAL LEVEL OF THE
COMMISSION TEAM FOR THE ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS AND TOLD
MINISTERS ON 8 JULY QUITE EXPLICITLY THAT HE WAS NO LONGER ·
RESPONSIBLE FOR TRADE POLICY MATTERS. HE ADDED THAT HIS
SUCCESSOR FOR TRADE POLICY WOULD NOT BE APPOINTED BEFORE
15 JULY. THIS MEANS THAT, IF WE WERE TO CARRY CUT YOUR INSTRUCTIONS
NOW, WE WOULD HAVE TO DO SO WITH ERNST AND WE DOUBT WHETHER
THIS WOULD BE A VERY EFFECTIVE WAY OF FURTHERING HONG KONG'S
INTEREST.
3. IN ADDITION, WE SEE CONSIDERABLE FORCE IN THE ARGUMENTS
ADVANCED BY JONES AND NO DOUBT YOU AND THE GOVERNOR OF HONG
KONG WILL WISH TO CONSIDER THEM. AS SEEN FROM HERE, IT SEEMS
THAT THE TACTIC PROPOSED BY JONES OF ENTERING INTO NEGOTIATIONS
PROMPTLY BUT WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE
INTERRUPTED WITH A VIEW TO BRINGING PRESSURE TO BEAR VIA THE
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