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HONG KONG
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Department
1. Hong Kong has been an associate member of
ECEAFE for 20 years, and is seated separately
from the UK Delegation. In view of the formal
protests which China has already made in the
UPU and the ITU about the descritpion of Hong
Kong in the publications of those two bodies as
a UK dependent territory, and not as an integral
part of China, she will probably raise objections
to the separate representation of Hong Kong under
ECEAFE. We do not yet know what form these
objections will take. At the UPU and ITU
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meetings la-t autumn the Chinese protest was
clearly intended simply for the record.
(AS
it is British policy to avoid as far as possible
political discussion in those essentially
technical bodies we made no response to the
Chinese protest). They will similarly be
exercised by the presence of South Korea and
South Vietnam, and there are indications that
they may be content in those cases with
making a formal protest at the beginning of the
session, (which would be rebutted equally
formally), and would then proceed with the
business of the meeting without further fuss.
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