Mr. Carter
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Copied to: Mr. Whitehead
Mr. Smallman
Conduct of Hong Kong's Commercial Relations
I am sorry not to have commented sooner on your minute of 22 December, but I have been on leave.
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It is tempting to try our hand, as you put it, at a separate set of guidelines to deal with international organisations. But before we have recourse to this procedure it seems to me that we should at least explore the possibility of dealing with the problem in the context of the draft Document we now have; otherwise we shall be taking two bites at one cherry and we may find that difficulties arise at the second stage stemming from the language of the first draft agreement or from the positions already taken up.
There is everything to be said for trying to resolve all our differences in the one exercise and I therefore support Mr. Whitehead's suggestion that an additional paragraph be added on the lines drafted by him, with a further addition which might be added more appropriately, I think, to paragraph 7 than to para- graph 9.
3. Hong Kong may perhaps be regarded as sui generis among dependent territories but if it is proposed to issue any statement along the lines of the agreed draft the implications for other dependent territories will need to be borne in mind. It would seem appro- priate to associate Commonwealth Co-ordination Department with this exchange of minutes and I am therefore copying this to Mr. Smallman; subject to his views, I rather think that we should be letting the other dependent territory departments (GSAD, PIOD and WID) know what is afoot.
j.jh Keevie
(J. McKelvie) Trade Policy Department
2/1/70
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