LODE 18-I!
Reference.....
willki
Mrs. Chitty
1.
RESTRICTED
COMMON WEALTH
PARLIAMENTARY
AGREEMENT
that Hong Kong is
wit petting
fair loom activities.
Hong Kong/CPA COMPLAINT I Said may
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HKIOD think this complaint must have come from Sir Y K Kan, Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, who called on the PUS yesterday (7 June). The complaint seems to be completely unjustified.
2.
As you know, the UK Branch of the CPA hold an annual Seminar and an annual "Visit" (which is, in effect, a kind of junior seminar). Hong Kong does not qualify for the Seminar because their Legislature is non-elected, but they have been more than generously treated over invitations to the Visits: ten over the past twelve years, as against an average of five for comparable dependencies such as Bermuda, Antigua etc. Only five of the ten invitations, howvever, were taken up by Hong Kong. The delegates they sent were something of a trial to the CPA wealthy businessmen with relatives and business interests in the UK which took up most of the time they should have spent at lectures and functions. The exception was one of the two delegates sent in 1974, whom Mr Molloy describes as having been "good value" There has been no Visit this year as the CPA is organising the Speakers' Conference instead (only independent members of the Commonwealth attend this).
3.
Hong Kong is regularly represented at the CPA Annual Conference, although the rules had to be bent to permit them to participate in view of the non-elective character of their Legislature.
What more to they want? Without kя knowing the precise nature of Sir Y K Kan's complaint one can only say that the general picture is one of the CPA leaning over backwards to be nice to Hong Kong.
4.
8 June
Mo
Misham, It.k. Dept.
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J. CE
C. Le G.Eaton
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