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3587 - 1
1615
RR HONG KONG
GRS 185
CONFIDENTIAL
FM FCO 291130Z NOV 83
TO ROUTINE HONG KONG
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
TELEGRAM NUMBER 1268 OF 29 NOVEMBER
AND TOPORT LOUIS
MAURITIAN INTEREST IN HONG KONG
1-1983
Desk OFFICEA
PA
"ÉQUTRY Mution Taken
1. WHEN THE NEW MAUTITIUS HIGH COMMISSIONER MR NATH PAID A
COURTESY CALL RECENTLY ON MR RIFKIND, HE SAID THAT PRESENT
MAURITIAN ECONOMIC POLICY WAS 'TO ATTRACT INWARD INVESTMENT,
PARTICULARLY FROM HONG KONG. THE AIM WAS TO PERSUADE THOSE
MILLIONAIRES WHO WERE ANXIOUS TO LEAVE TO BRING THEIR MONEY AND
MANAGERIAL SKILLS TO MAURITIUS. A DELEGATION WOULD BE GOING TO
HONG KONG ON 21 NOVEMBER TO TRY TO PERSUADE THEM TO DO SO'.
WE ASSUME THIS REFERS TO THE DELEGATION LED BY SIR GAETAN
DUVAL REFERRED TO IN HONG KONG TELNO 3 TO PORT LOUIS. NO DOUBT
THOSE OFFICIALS IN HONG KONG WHO MET THE DELEGATION WILL HAVE
DONE THEIR BEST TO INSTIL IN ITS MEMBERS MINDS THE NEED TO AVOID ANY MOVES, PARTICULARLY PUBLIC ONES, WHICH COULD DAMAGE CONFIDENC
IN HONG KONG AT THIS PRESENT SENSITIVE TIME.
2.
3. IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF PORT LOUIS COULD BEAR THIS IN MIND AND, WITHOUT REFERRING TO THE CALL ON MR RIFKIND, MAKE APPROPRIAT NOISES WHEN OPPORTUNITIES ARISE. (SEE ALSO OUR GUIDANCE TELNO
153 OF 18 NOVEMBER).
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