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eter Joy Esq
DEPARTIENT OF TRADE
1 VICTORIA STREET LONDON SAH CET
PA
TVED IN REGISTRY NU.
J21.8.
HU=184/1
British High Commissför
Kuala Lumpur
Dear Peter
2 1 AUG 1979
DESK OFFICER
INDE
PA
REGIS
16 August 1979
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See (391)/404,
As envisaged in our telegram no.224 of 8 August, I enclose a draft CMU for you to pass on to Hamzah. Although it has been agreed with British Airways, we have not yet received comments on the draft from the Hong Kong Government and CPA. Rather than delay the despatch of the draft to you, I am sending it off now and we will telegraph as soon as possible to let you know whether it has to be amended in the light of Hong Kong views. Please do not forward it to Hamzah until you have received a telegram on the Hong Kong position.
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2 We would be grateful if you would explain to Hamzah that, he would expect, the draft CMU reflects the agreement already reached between the two sides, principally the exchange of letters between the Secretary of State for Trade and Manickavasagam, as well as earlier CHUS and letters in so far as they still apply. The draft does not therefore raise any new points of policy, and we hope that there will be little difficulty in agreeing the text.
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You might go on to say that any drafting points the Malaysians may have should be transmitted back to us through you, in the hope that the tent can be agreed in correspondence without a further meeting. You could then make the remaining points in para 2 of our telegram no.224.
¿ If the opportunity arises, you might say to Hamzah that I an personally very sorry not to have the opportunity to come cut to Kuala Lumpur to settle the text finally. But, as you will already have explained, we hope that no meeting will be necessary; and in any case a number of other problems, principally in relation to Europe, will keep me here in September.
5 I am sending a copy of this letter and of the enclosure to Graeme Wilson in Hong Kong.
Yours
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C V ROBERTS
Enc
PS
Cleistopher.
On a semi-serious note, as the Malaysians are always alleging that BA are not making a scrious effort in Malaysia, you might like to show them the enclosed extract from BA's staff magazin which suggests that greater efforts are being made in Malaysia and Brunoi than anywhere else,