Hong Kong

European Integration

CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG

Your Tel 475: Consultations about British

Sntry into the B.E.C.

Departmental

3.I.D.

Hong Kong Dupt.

Mr. Denman

Board of Trade

It has been agreed that Dodge should attend

Commonwealth briefing meetings in Brussels

(sec Wilford's letter of 10 July to Sorby),

and he attended the meeting on 22 July.

2. The trouble about your Administrative

Commissioner in London attending the briefing of

Commonwealth High Commissioners here is that if we

agreed to this other dependent territories would,

we fear, seek representation and the meetings would become very unwieldy. The primary purpose of the

London meetings is to brief those Commonwealth

countries (and there are many of them) which are

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