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DB2AIN
CONFIDENTIAL L
HKK 04
10/8 F
4390
FROM: A C Galsworthy, HKD
DATE: 12 September 1985
Mr Miller, MVD
MEXICAN VISA REQUIREMENTS ON HONG KONG BDTC
1. Your minute to Ehrman of 10 September refers.
2.
Briefly, we did have s ome reservations on your draft letter which, although covered by a minute dated 15 August, was not received in this Department until 19 August, the day before the letter was despatched. We could not comment immediately because of pressure
of other work but we we re on the point of sending you
received a our suggestions when we
copy of the letter as despatched. We appreciate that you wanted to send
off
instructions to Mexico City as soon as
but in view of
your
for which
possible,
are grateful, we
the importance of the subject and the obvious interest of Hong Kong Department, I think
been it might have worth a telephone call to us to confirm whether we had any comments or not, before the letter was sent off.
3.
have
I now see that you suspend action on your letter for the time being.
consider
asked Mexico City to
You
following
the therefore
might like to comments based mainly on paragraph 6 of the letter and which could be used by the post as additional material
if
raise the Mexicans
the question of the
BN(O)s under the new arrangements:
status
of
has
for
the
been given status in the Hong Kong Act
(a)
Parliamentary
approval
creation of BN (O)
1985; and
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