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notice that we intend to press most resolutely next
year for improvements to benefit Hong Kong. We shall
do this even though it costs us something in Community
terms. Again, although we have had to ask Hong Kong
for voluntary restraint agreements in certain textile
fields, we have gone as far as we can to meet them,
both on volume and on details. For instance, we have
just agreed to unlimited carryover of unused quotas
from 1973 to 1974. As a further example, we have
supported the Governor on corruption issues as far as
we possibly can. We have resisted Parliamentary and
other pressure in Britain for an independant commission
of enquiry from the United Kingdom. We have agreed to
changes in the Hong Kong law and in Colonial Regulations
to make it easier to deal with corrupt public servants.
We are willing to loan to Hong Kong one or two senior
officers from Scotland Yard or another UK Force to
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On the culipuational twel help. We have used some of our credit with the Arabs,
at Ministerial level, to persuade them to make special
arraigements to supply Hong Kong with oil. The Prime
Minister personally spoke to Sheik Yamani about this.
Perhaps most important of all, at some considerable
cost to our relations with the Chinese, we have given
them and encouragement to pursue the proposal of
estalflishing a Chinese Representative in Hong Kong.
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