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SUGLISTED VISIT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO
HONG KONG OR 972
In May 1971 the Ministerial Visits Committee
discussed the question of a visit by the Secretary
of State to Hong Kong. The matter arose in
connection with an invitation extended by the
Governor, in his capacity as Chancellor of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, to a Minister to visit the Colony as a guest of the University to open the University's Science Centre.
would also meet the participants in the General
Conference of Vice Chancellors/which was to be
held in Hong Kong at the same time.
The Minister
2. A parallel approach had been made to us by
the Inter University Council for Higher Education
Overseas.
3.
The date provisionally proposed for the visit
was April 1972 and the Royal Visits Committee
thought that this invitation would fit in with the
Secretary of State's own wish to visit Hong Kong
and that it c uld be combined with a
next year;
visit to New Zealand and with the Secretary of
State's attendance at SEATO (the next SEATO meeting
was to be held in Canberra and on normal form
would be held in April).
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