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UK EYES A
VISIT TO HONG KONG 6 10 JANU RY.
KEPORT OF UK TEAM
THE
VISIT
B
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4. The main features of the discussions
are recoded in the
following paragraphs J
At their meeting in MOD on 18 December HE the Governor
which must be resolved
arm
of Hong Kong and DUS(P) agreed that an official team represent-
ing the MOD, HM Treasury and the FCO should visit Hong Kong
early in January 1975 with the main objects first of explaining
to the Hong Kong Government in actail the estimated costs of
a "reduced" long mong garrison (including 53 Army teeth/units)
and secondly of identifying the issues requiring resolation
before negotiation of a successor to the current ilong Kong
Defence Contribution agreement could be completed (options
were to be identfied where possible). The discussions were
envisaged as a development of talks already held between UK
and Hong Kong officials in London on 23 October 1974.
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2. The visit to Hong Kong took place on 6 10 January
1975. The composition of the UK team is shown at Annex A.
The objectives which the UK team set themselves are tabulated
at Annex B. The team was not authorised to negotiate. The
discussions comprised a series of formal meetings with oficials
of the Hong Kong Colonial Secretariat and the Police, at which
the chair was taken initially by the Colonial Secretary and
subsequently by the Secretary for Security, and, in addition,
informal meetings with HE the Governor, CBF and the Financial
The formal discussious Secretary. Throughout/the team were supported by the staff of
CBF Hong Kong.
3. An agreed, but not full, record of the formal meetings
has been prepared by the Hong Kong Government (annex C, not
yet available).
THE
DISCUSSIONS
A. Formal discussions with the Colonial Secretariat.
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