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information
made through the Hong Kong company.
3. Brian Pemberton, Managing Director(Hong Kong),
has told C & W (UK) that if he has the support of the
two Hong Kong Government appointed Directors he will
be able to obtain the agreement of the other Directors
to the arrangement whereby Hong Kong will make these
contributions.
4.
DOI, which has been responsible for BT, invested
considerable effort in ensuring that agreement on the
For your own
new financial arrangements was reached. The 'DOI also
hope to use the setting up of a new Technical Assistance
Fund within the CTO as a means of deflecting criti-
cism from developing countries in general about the
inadeguany of mesent
lack of aid for the development of telecommunications.
These criticisms will be voiced in the strongest terms
at the International Telecommunication Union Plenipo-
tentiary Conference to be held in Nairobi in the autumn
It would be embarrassing for HMG were BT to baulk now
at sigging the new financial arrangements on the
grounds that Cable and Wireless could not fulfil thier
commitment. I should therefore be grateful if you
would speak to Mr Blye and Mr Keap, the Hong Kong
appointed
cas y te intitetty to Government Directors to C & W, to ensure their support!
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