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I am so sorry that we have not been able to arrange
a lunch together before we both go off on holiday.
I hope this will be possible later in the year.
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In the meantime I thought it might be useful if I
gave you some initial thoughts on your interesting idea
of forming a City Group to coordinate and liaise on
Hong Kong matters. Without knowing exactly what you hav:
in mind, I wonder if such a Group might not overlap
with the existing Hong Kong Association,
which already brings together a very wide and varied
number of firms in the commercial and financial fields
with an interest in Hong Kong. Have you come across ther
Their chairman is John Swire and they have in the past
seen Ministers on a number of questions, including the
future of Hong Kong.
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There is also, on the
semi-official side, a
Hong Kong Trade Advisory Group, under the British Oversea
Trade Board, which leads on practical export promotion
work connected with Hong Kong. The chairman of this is
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