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for Hong Ko
... would be u
great
pressure fr.
certain Commonwealth countrie
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and from ant -marketeers in this country.
He wondered
C
ether we should do anything
in the three weeks left to us to make a
case on "technical adaptation".
We had
absolutely no obligation to do anything
about
wwer the question of the annual review until next year. He pointed out that
there were many other important cases building up on which we would have to approach the Community. Mr. Stuart thought there were two answers to critics of an
approach on Hong Kong's behalf:
Wie
.) we could special pleading
that Hong Kong's position vis-avis her competitors had got worse; and
we could answer domestic critics
by saying that we had made a specific undertaking to Hong Kong at the time
tỏ
of the negotiations for membership.
Mr. Royle said that he was not sure that the domestic criticism of an approach on
bihaif
Hong Kong's past would be very damaging.
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We should at least use the argument that
Hong Kong was a Dependent Territory for whose external relations we were responsibl
/which
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