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R H Baker Esq
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As you will know, the Canadian Commissioner here, Allen Kilpatrick is being recalled to Ottawa to take up the post of Deputy Assistant Minister for Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of External Affairs. As I understand it, this is a new post being created as part of a structural reorganisation of the Department which will bring political, trade and immigration matters under a single chain of command. Kilpatrick is due to start on 6 September. He expects to have three Directors- General reporting to him. He says that they have not yet been formally nominated but that two of them are likely to be the present Canadian Ambassadors in Indonesia and India.
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After You will have Kilpatrick's career details. less than two years here he was not expecting a move and was surprised, though gratified, to be offered this appointment which is a promotion for him.
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a man of considerable ability and intelligence and is in
Way overaved by the prospect of his new responsibilities.
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Kilpatrick is, I think, sympathetic to Hong Kong though we had evidence earlier this year that he had been
He has been helpful sending in some pretty gloomy reports. in representing Hong Kong's concerns over Vietnamese refugees to Ottawa and has probably been instrumental in securing the very recent transfer of some quota places from Thailand to Hong Kong (a modest achievement but every little counts).
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