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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
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RJT McLaren Esq CMG Political Adviser
Government Secretariat HONG KONG
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HKK 022/2
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1° w/25/2
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Date
24 February 1982
Dear Robin,
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND HONG KONG
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1. Thank you for your letter of 28 January. copy of my reply to Derek March.
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2. I sympathise with your views about Hong Kong's status. However, as is made clear in my letter to Derek March, we do have a problem because at the time of our accession to the Community Hong Kong was deliberately excluded from any of the special relationships with the Community which the dependencies of EC Member States normally enjoy under the EEC Treaty and associated documents. Hong Kong does therefore stand in the same relation to the Community as a third country. In these circumstances, I think the solution I have suggested in my letter to Derek March is probably the tidiest and least complicated way of dealing with this problem.
Your Drincenely Henry hud
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R D Clift
Hong Kong and General Department
cc D M March Esq OBE, Senior British Trade Commissioner, HONG KONG
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