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Room 1710,
New World Tower, 17/Floor, 16-18, Queen's Road, Central, HONG KONG
again.
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Information Work on Britain in Hong Kong
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We owe you a reply to your letter of 2 April to David Ford in which you referred to the suggestion that a UK-based Information Officer might be attached to the Government Secretariat with responsibility for more effective representation of the British point of view in Hong Kong. The Foreign Office would not be able to contribute to the cost.
London.
You also mentioned it in June when we met in
H.E. has minuted that he discussed this matter with you when he was in London. As H.E. understood it, the proposal was that a UK Officer seconded to the Hong Kong Government, based in Information Branch would:
(a)
liaise with the Foreign Office on issues likely to be of Parliamentary interest, and
(b)
where necessary, put over the UK's point of view in Hong Kong.
Mr. R.D. Clift,
Hong Kong and General Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, LONDON SW1A 2AH
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