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SPEAKING NOTE ON HONG KONG FOR USE AT
DEPUTIES MEETING: 3/4 NOVEMBER, 1970
expressed
We' have stated our
disappointment
at at the
Community's reservation on association for
Hong Kong
important that we
should have an early discussion of the issues
involved. It would be useful if you could
provide us with a detailed statement of the
problems you foresee.
2. We hope that it will be possible to
present us with such a statement at the next
Deputies meeting. We are intending to have
talks with Hong Kong officials in London on
this issue on 23/25 November. It would be
most useful/if, during these talks, we would
be in a position to conduct an informed review
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of the whole situation with Hong Kong officials,
based on a Community statement and our own
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Meanwhile We consider it particularly
Important that Hong Kong should be included
in the UNCTAD Generalised Preferences Scheme.
If she were excluded by the Community, she
would also be excluded most probably by the
U.S., Japan and possibly others. The exclusion
of-Hong Kong would carry the implication that
dependent territories were to be treated as
the responsibility of the metropolitan-power.
It excluded from the Sc home
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
mind in
considering Hong
Kump's position.
Hong Kong might then, in the light of whatever Leavin else comes out of our negotiations, become a A
charge on the enlarged Community
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On the
other hand, if Hong Kong were included in the
meme by the Cor iw, the like
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