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**MY OWN VIEW, AS EXPLAINED ABOVE, IS THAT SEPARATE GATT PREMISES WOULD NOT ENJOY INVIOLABILITY AT ALL. BUT HONG KONG
REPRESENTATIVES TO GATT WOULD BE ENTITLED TO CLAIM INVIOLABILITY FOR ALL PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS' (ARTICLE V OF THE AGREEMENT). HOWEVER, #| QUESTION WHETHER THERE WOULD BE LIKELY TO BE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OVER PAPERS NOT RELATING TO GATT. MY GUESS IS THAT N PRACTICE THE SWISS WOULD, AS IT IS ARGUABLE THEY SHOULD, INTERPRET
ALL PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS' AS INCLUDING EVEN PRIVATE MAIL, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE UNLIKELY THEREFORE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GATT PAPERS AND OTHER OFFICIAL PAPERS. IN SHORT, IF A HONG KONG REPRESENTATIVE SAID 'THESE ARE MY PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS'. THE SWISS MIGHT WELL IN PRACTICE REGARD THEM AS NVHOLABLE, WITHOUT MAKING ANY FURTHER INQUIRIES AS TO THEIR EXACT NATURE.'
5. WE TRUST THAT THIS ADVICE COUPLED WITH THE POINTS IN OUR TELNO 1399 WILL ENABLE YOU TO CONCLUDE THAT OUR PROPOSALS CAN NOW BE PUT
TO THE CHINESE.
YOUDE
HONG KONG AGREEMENT : RESTRICTED
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
COPIES TO:
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
RESEARCH D (FE)
DEP/HD PUSD
PS/MR RENTON MR WILSON
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