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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1
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JB Ingram Esq
Department of Trade 1 Victoria Street LONDON SW1
Dear John,
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1. I enclose for you and other recipients copies of a first shot of a brief I have prepared for next week's Council discussion on GSP.
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I have not yet seen your Minister's final paper on GSP and it may be that fairly substantial revision will be required in the light of that. I have based my draft largely on the paper enclosed with Sidney Abramson's letter of 31 October to Brian Cubbon and the most recent GSP reporting telegrams from UKREP Brussels.
3. I should be grateful if I could have comments on the draft by, at the latest, close of play on Thursday, 7 November.
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I should particularly welcome comments of Timms on the statement about Hong Kong. I hope that we shall be able to use this as the basis for answering Hong Kong telegram No 1091.
Yours sincerely. Argen.
R D Hart
European Integration Department (External)
cc:
Miss C Welch DOT
N Brecknell Esq Cabinet Office
DK Timms Esq HKIOD FCO
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