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Migration and Visa Department

a.

Visa abolition with Spain 1960;

b.

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By definition, the following visa abolition agreement are applicable to holders of passports issued by the Governor of Hong Kong:

Belgium

Netherlands

Denmark

France

Luxembourg Monaco

Norway

San Marino

Iceland

Italy

Sweden

Portugal

8.

European Community Department (E)

Hong Kong is separately represented in GATT although for constitutional reasons the delegation is listed as 'UK representing Hong Kong'. The following GATT agreements also apply to Hong Kong:

a.

b.

Multi-Fibre Arrangement, as amended by the 1982 Extension Protocol;

Agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade (Standards), Government Procurement, Subsidies and Countervailing Duties, Customs Valuation (and Protocol), Import Licensing and Antil-Dumping.

In addition to the above I have traced in Hong Kong Section's files Hong Kong's membership or connections with the following:

a.

b.

C.

d.

e.

f.

g.

h.

i.

j.

k.

1.

Supplementary Agreement on Technical Assistance (International Atomic Energy Agency);

m.

n.

Intergovernmental Committee for Migration;

International Labour Organisation;

World Assembly on Ageing;

Hong Kong/UK Scientific Cooperation;

World Health Organisation (Hong Kong are UK representatives on Western Pacific Regional Committee);

UNESCO;

UNHCR/Refugee Convention and Protocol;

UNDP;

UN International Federation of Business and

Professional Women;

International Monetary Fund;

Commonwealth Regional Consultative Group on Trade;

UNCTAD;

UNIDO.

5 August 1982

G C Livesey

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