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COMMENT:
CONFIDENTIAL
FM BUDAPEST
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 102
HKB 020/13
RECEIVED IN E
27 FEB 1990
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INFO ROUTINE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
HONG KONG TELNO 4018
(89) НКВ ог0124
HUNGARY/HONG KONG
1. THE HUNGARIANS WERE NOT HAPPY WITH THE NEWS THAT WE WERE UNWILLING TO PERMIT THEM TO OPEN A TRADE OFFICE IN HONG KONG DESPITE MY ASSURANCES THAT THERE WOULD BE A MORE RELAXED APPROACH TO COMMERCIAL VISITS. THE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER HAS RETURNED TO THE CHARGE WITH AN ENQUIRY ABOUT WHETHER THE REPRESENTATIVE OF A HUNGARIAN COMMERCIAL FIRM WOULD BE ABLE TO SET UP SHOP IN HONG KONG AND WHETHER IT MIGHT HELP IF THEY TALKED
I SAID THAT AS HUNGARY WAS STILL A STATE DIRECT TO THE CHINESE. TRADING NATION WITHIN THE CMEA I WAS SURE THAT A COMMERCIAL FIRM WOULD BE VIEWED IN THE SAME LIGHT AS A GOVERNMENT OFFICE. AS TO IT WAS UP TO THE HUNGARIANS WHAT THEY SAID BUT THE THE CHINESE, DECISION AGAINST THE HUNGARIAN OFFICE CAME FROM HONG KONG, NOT PEKING. I EMPHASISED THAT OUR POLICY COVERED CMEA AS A WHOLE AND WAS NOT AIMED SPECIFICALLY AT HUNGARY.
2.
I THINK THE HUNGARIANS WILL RAISE THIS DURING THE SECRETARY
WE SHOULD NOT OF STATE'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST ON 28 FEBRUARY, ARGUING THAT IF WE WISH TO SEE HUNGARY BECOME A MARKET ECONOMY T DENY IT ACCESS TO THE BEST PRACTITIONERS.
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