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STRICTLYÏ JERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR FROM MCLAREN DUSS
SULF DAI39; BURDEN SHARING
YOU MAY HAVE SEEN FOD TEUNO 151 TO BERNE CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTS TO LOBBY HOST SOVERNMENTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO STATES MOST AFFECTED BY THE COST OF MAKING SANCTIONS AGAINST TRAB EDT:VS HONG KONG WAS INCLUDED AMONG THE ACTION ADDRESSEES WITHOUT CONSULTATION WITH HKD. AND WITHOUT ANY SPECIAL THOUGHT BEING GIVEN TO THE TERRITORY'S STAZ 5.
2. THE QUESTION NEVERTHELESS ARISES WHETHER THERE MIGHT D. ADVANTABE TO HONG KONG IN MAKING A CONTRIBUTION OF SOME KIND AND IN BEING SEEN. EG BY THE AMERICANS. TO DO 80. I BATHET FROM ALAN JOUL THAT ANDREW BURNS HAD SOME DISCUSSION WITH YOU ABOUT THIS IN HONG KONG LAST WEEK. I KNOW THE SENSITIVITIES AND
RECA
FUSS LOCALLY WHEN A CONTRIBUTION WAS OFFERED TO
HE UK AT THE TIME OF THE FALKLANDS WAR. YOU WILL NOT WANT TO REOPEN OLD DOA WOUNDS BUT HONG KONG WILL BE DEEPLY AFFECTED IF THE WORLD GOES INTO RECESSION AS A RESULT OF THE GULF CRISIS AND. AS SEEN FROM HERE.
WOULD BE IN THE TERRITORY'S POLITICAL INTERESTS TO FIND SOME MEANS OF SHOULDERING AN APPROPRIATE SHARE OF THE COSTS INVOLVED IN SECURING IRAQI WITHDRAWAL FROY KUWAIT AND HELPING THOSE MOST AFFECTED BY THE APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS.
OF JURSE BE FOR YOU
DIFFICUL
WITH
63PROPRIATE FOR HONG KONG AND CAUSE
NANCE COMYITTEE OF LEGCO AND
OPINION. (YOU WOULD YEED TO BEAR IN MIND "HE CHINESE ANGLE 700. THOUGH THAT SHOULD NOT BE TOO MUCH OF A PROBLEM:
A KAS BUPPORTED ALL
SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS SO FAR) THAT SAID). IF YOU THINK THE IDEA A STARTER VE GOULAS
CUS WHJ ULA!
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