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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT
To:-
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Western Europe. To ensure Hong Kong's viability it is vital that the Territory should not be dis. criminated against in these markets, but should
have access
on
a par
with her commercial
ples competitors. If she were
barys 1
excluded from the
UNCTAD Scheme, her future prospects would be severely damaged; particularly since there
would then be a
danger that commercial in- terests in Hong Kong would more their opera- tions to another Asian territory, which had been michided in the Scheme. I hope you
inll
agree
that this form of vicious circle would be harm.
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ful to all an interests.