CONFIDENTIAL
NOTE BY FACSIMILE
TO SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS
FROM COMMISSIONER, LONDON OFFICE
INFO FCO (HKGD)
MR C BURGESS, BRUSSELS
"ECONOMIST" CONFERENCE
OUR REF : 521/27
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THEY ARE CONSIDERING
SHORTLY AFTER YOUR TELNO 260 OF 17.2.82 CAME TO HAND AND WE WERE ABOUT TO INFORM MARION BIEBER ("ECONOMIST" CONFERENCE DIRECTOR), SHE CALLED US TO SAY THAT FOLLOWING HER DISCUSSIONS WITH THIS OFFICE AND MARK SCHREIBER'S
MORE RECENT CHAT WITH THE COMMISSIONER. CHANGING BOTH THE TITLE AND THE THRUST OF THE CONFERENCE
IN FRANKFURT. ACCORDING TO HER, THE BIAS AND EMPHASIS
WOULD HEAVILY BE TOWARDS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES IN HONG KONG, AS EVIDENCED BY TITLES CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION
WITHIN "THE ECONOMIST", EG :
(A)
HONG KONG : ECONOMIC EXPECTATIONS, NEEDS AND
OPPORTUNITIES;
(B)
THE NEEDS OF HONG KONG IN THE 1980'S : CAN EUROPE
MEET THEM;
(C)
HONG KONG : ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR EUROPE
IN THE 1980'S.
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2.
DESPITE THIS LATEST INFORMATION FROM MARION BIEBER,
WE PROCEEDED STILL TO GIVE HER THE MESSAGE IN PARA 3 OF YOUR TELNO 260 (WHICH, INCIDENTALLY, WE HAVE COPIED TO BRUSSELS). WE DID SO ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT HOWEVER STRONG AND HEAVY THE EMPHASIS ON MATTERS ECONOMIC, THERE IS LIKELY TO BE SOME--PERHAPS EVEN CONSIDERABLE--TALK
OF THE 1997 PROBLEM.
MARION BIEBER REMAINED SYMPATHETIC TO OUR OBVIOUS CONCERN; BUT SHE WAS CLEARLY DISAPPOINTED AND MADE THE
FOLLOWING POINTS :
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