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GOVERNment seCRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
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CR STAGG ESQ
HONG KONG & GENERAL DEPART.
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Dear Richard,
3 July 1978
S7 40. 51
10 JUL 1978
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POLISH CONSULAR REPRESENTATION IN HONG KONG
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I should be grateful if you could clarify certain wider points arising from David Wilson's letter of 29 June 1978 (copy now sent to PCD).
We can only trace five countries as having had their London Consuls-General gazetted in Hong Kong: Spain, Turkey, Mexico, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The first three countries now have resident Consuls-General here. According to the Colonial office, the Czechoslovak Consulate-General was "closed" (by which they may have meant merged with the Embassy) in 1950. Is it really the case that, out of the 90 or so countries represented in London but not in Hong Kong, Poland is the only one whose consular district includes dependent territories? If there are others, why have we never received the same sort of communications about them, asking us whether their appointment to Hong Kong was agreed, which we received about Kalinowski (Miss Houston's memorandum TXK 400/319/1 of 25 August 1976)? We duly published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette that Mr Kalinowski had received his Exequator as Consul- General of Poland in London, with jurisdiction including Hong Kong. Is there in fact any reason from your point of view why we should publish such appointments in the Hong Kong Government Gazette (was Kalinowski's so published in the official gazettes of e.g. St Helena and the Falkland Islands)? We should prefer not to do
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We should also be grateful if you would clarify for us the position when a Consulate-General in London has been subsumed into an Embassy as its Consular Section. We see from the London Diplomatic List that there is a
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