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We agreed that transport and close to other cultural institutions.
there might be difficulties, theoretically, if a "dedicated" Consulate-General building included a non-diplomatic British Council section. But if, as now seemed more likely, there was a much larger commercial development of which the Consulate-General was only part, it would be easier to conceive of an arrangement whereby a number of
and floors were taken up by the Council, with separate access, enjoyed a different status from the diplomatic premise of the Consulate-General elsewhere in the same building.
5. Mr Davey agreed to keep in close touch with me as the Council's thinking developed.
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