НКК
sus/ 509|1
2300977
NO.
348/1
INDEX
See low Am
A E Donald Esq Political Adviser
Government Secretariat
Hong Kong
See, (36)
39
BRITISH MBAJ [H
HANOI
14 Uctober 1977
Mithampson
PAT 125/60
раб
33
HONG KONG VISAS FOR EAST SUROPEANS
1. ¡y Ambassador is writing to you in this bag about Hong Kong visas for Vietnamese (his letter 348/1 of 14 Cctober not to all). There is another aspect of our visa work on behalf of Hong Kong which has been bothering me recently.
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2. As you will know we try in anoi to keep on good terms with our East European colleagues on the grounds that it is to our advantage to exchange news and views with people who have more access to Vietnamese officials than we do.
3. I have been regularly teased by the komanian Military Attaché that it is no good his coming to me for a visa to Hong Kong because I shall not give him one. I have usually managed to laugh this off, but at the Chinese National Day party on 30 September Colonel kusu said that he hoped I had not been offended by his frequent references to Hong Kong visas. He did not at present want to go to Hong Kong.
when he did want to, he would get the visa from the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest. Ae "always obtains his visas through Bucharest" and there has never been any problem.
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A few minutes later at the same party I was tackled on the subject by Mr Atanas Karagiozov, the Bulgarian Commercial Counsellor. Mr Karagiozov said that the former Czech Commercial Counsellor, Fr Alfred Kover, had visited Hong Kong annually for several years until he came to Hanoi. It was only when he was in Vietnam that he had encountered any difficultly with his visas.
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