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During the actual talks, no drastic or irrevocable change in an agreed brief or agreed tactics should be made without further consultation. When the talks are being held in the United Kingdom, the Hong Kong represen- tative should have full access (at all times) to the Civil Aviation Department of the Board of Trade during the course of the nogotiations.
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should not be excluded (as has sometimes happened in the past) from internal meetings at which docisions are reached and subsequently notified to him as beyond challengo. If the talks are held in a foreign country, the Hong Kong representative should have direct access to the senior British diplomatic representative there. The Hong Kong representative should also be fully informed of any communication affecting Hong Kong interests which passes between the British delegation and Her Majesty's Governmont; and, to the extent that Hong Kong is affected, he should have the right to incorporate his own views in such communications in his own words.
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The purpose of the above is to ensure that, where there is disagreement either on principles or on tactics between the British dolegation and the Hong Kong representative, the brief and the tactics proviously agreed upon are not modified rithout proper weight being accorded to the Hong Kong view. Furthermore, if, in the view of the Hong Kong representative, refer nce back to the Governor of Hong Kong is desirable, such reference should be made before the negotiations proceed, unless delay is clearly unacceptable.
23.
It is sugrested that it would be preferable if CPA's views on matters of air service negotiations were generally channelled through Hong Kong, rather than received partly in Hong Kong and partly in London
24.
In a ropriate cases, the desirability of adding a Commonwealth Office representative, and/or, perhaps, a Hong Kong Unofficial, to the British delegation would be borne in mind..
Colonial Secretariat,
HONG KONG.
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May, 1967.