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: ALYSON BAILES, BRITISH EMBASSY, PEKING.
: 020/393/23
DATED 25 NOVEMBER 1988.
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COPIED TO
DOUG MARTIN ESQ., UKREP JLG HONG KONG. : DONALD TSANG, GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH,
HONG KONG.
HONG KONG DEPARTMENT, FCO. CHANCERY, LISBON.
SINO-PORTUGUESE JOINT LIAISON GROUP.
1. MFA OFFICIALS HAVE TOLD US THAT KANG JIMIN, THE (FAIRLY RECENTLY APPOINTED) DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MFA HKMO DEALING WITH MACAO, WILL BE INSTALLED IN MACAO FROM AROUND THE TIME OF SPRING FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR AS CONCURRENT HEAD OF THE PERMANENT JLG OFFICE AND LEADER OF THE CHINESE SIDE ON THE SINO-PORTUGUESE JLG. KANG'S RESIDENT TEAM WILL BE CONSIDERABLY SMALLER THAN THE ONE IN HONG KONG. THE PORTUGUESE HAVE AGREED TO SET UP THEIR JLG OFFICE ON THE SAME TIMETABLE AND SAME SCALE, BUT OUR INFORMANT DID NOT KNOW WHO THEIR OFFICE HEAD WOULD BE.
2. KANG MAY NOT BE IMMEDIATELY REPLACED AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN PEKING. SINCE THERE IS STILL NO EARLY PROSPECT OF A REPLACEMENT FOR WANG JIAJI, THIS LEAVES THE HKMO AS A WHOLE DESPERATELY ISHORT-HANDED. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT IF ANY LIAISON
DEVELOPS BETWEEN KE IN HONG AND KANG IN MACAO.
SIGNED: ALYSON J K BAILES.
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