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SAID THAT, WHILE MY AUTHORITIES WOULD APPRECIATE JAPAN'S PUBLIC SUPPORT, THEY WOULD BE SORRY TO LEARN THAT JAPAN STILL HAD SOME APPARENT CONCERNS REGARDING THE POSITION AFTER 1997. YOU WILL NO
DOUBT LET US KNOW HF YOU WISH US TO SEEK AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO OVER THE GROUND AGAIN WITH THE JAPANESE HERE.
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6. DUNKEL (D-G GATT), WITH WHOM * DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY OF THE INDIAN INTERVENTION BEFORE THE COUNCIL, DECIDED, HN VNEW OF
HITS LOW-KEY CHARACTER, NOT TO USE HIS PREPARED SPEAKUNG NOTE ON HONG KONG'S GATT STATUS (COPY MUFAXED TO FCO AND PASSED TO CARTLAND) FOR FEAR OF PRECIPITATING A DEBATE. IN THE EVENT, PARK'S SLIGHTLY UNORTHODOX (BUT NOT UNTYPICAL) ACTION, WHEN HE ALMOST FORGOT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HONG KONG'S MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCHL AND THEN TREATED MT AS IF IT WERE AN AGENDA HITEM HAD NO ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES, AND
INDEED, THE BRINGING DOWN OF THE GAVEL GAVE AN AIR OF FINALMITY TO THE PROCESS.
7. OTHER CPS ACQUIESCED AS REQUESTED, AND THOSE WHOM WE HAD BRIEFED TO VOICE A WELCOME IF APPROPRIATE, FOLLOWED TRAN'S LEAD AND KEPT SILENT, THUS AVOIDING THE RISK OF FURTHER UNHELPFUL INTERVENTMONS.
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