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1.(2Eollowing the recent exchange of telegrams (our telno 66, FCO telno 1109 to Hong Kong, Hong Kong telno 1809), Stewart Webb- Johnson and David Skinner from Hong Kong's Brussels office called the Ambassador on 26 June for a general discussion OECD/Hong Kong.
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2. After some ground-clearing on Taniguchi's visit in July, and the Governor's visit in October, the HK team told us that they had had
to the four had generally positive reactions
OECD/DAE workshops. Some had been more valuable than others; the final session on globalisation had been less immediately relevant and had degenerated into Japan-bashing by other OECD partners, which had bemused DAE participants. But the overall assessment was still positive.
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Webb-Johnson and Skinner had been given a copy of C/NM (90) 22 in confidence by the Secretariat and said that their authorities would give considered reactions to Taniguchi on 23 July; their own initial reaction was that it was right both to broaden and deepen the dialogue in the way proposed. Though HK had not had difficulty servicing the OECD/DAE workshops on trade, financial, economic and
and investment issues, they might bump up against restraints if the dialogue were to broaden out into many other new areas. They saw value in even distribution of venues between Paris and the Pacific region. Webb-Johnson did not know how HK would react to a suggestion that they might host one of these events; he suspected the Chinese angle would make his authorities chary about doing anything so high-profile. HK was keen to maintain the tripartite formula but would not insist on it in every case. They would not favour any joint OECD sessions. with both DAES and Eastern Europeans; their respective situations were so different.
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