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agreement but
Reverting to the subject on 15 May Matsuura explained that he was talking not of an ongoing (e.g. five or ten year)
a series of specific agreements with the Hong Kong Government covering a particular project or set of projects falling within a given fiscal year. He produced an example, a recent agreement with the Government of PNG covering the
provision of language laboratory and audio-visual equipment
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to the local university, taking the format of a letter from the
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Japanese Ambassador to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. format this looks reassuring to us (copy by bag to HKD) project Matsuura has in mind for 86/87 in Hong Kong is enhanced support to the Japanese language programme at Hong Kong University. If the principle were agreeable to us and if the programme gave satisfaction in practice, he would (without commitment) hope to repeat this for the Chinese University in 87/88. The money for HKU was expected to come very near the permitted Japanese ceiling of 50 million Yen. This would, he
thought, represent more than a ten-fold increase in the money
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that can be supplied from the Japan Foundation (with its heavy overheads and many claims on its budget).
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We are unable to comment on what may lie behind this
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at the Japanese end. in Hong Kong Matsuura (is trying hard to
horal Japan / Hin Krag augment bilateral 'relations and improve Japan's image. Matsuura
I has experience in developing assistance administration and
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appears to have got his hands on an attractive slice of the
action.
The new funding seems to us worth having. It would be
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welcomed by the universities.
While we would much prefer an