MO
talks of "the establishment within ESD of a unit comparable to those dealing with Country studies". The nature of the 'unit is left unclear: we should make clear that we interpret it as a Country desk (ie. 2 people) not as a country division (12 people).
8.
We
Obviously resources will not be an easy problem to resolve. tend to be cast as hard-liners in budget debates, opposing the taking-on of important new work. In fact, though we are hard-liners, we support new work - but this has to be enabled by cutting old low-priority work. We could logically argue that it is those delegations which defend deadbeat old projects of distinctly minority interest which are responsible for preventing the organisation from adapting to changing demands and priorities.
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Martin Bourke
Economic Relations Department
CC: Mr Tauwhare, ERD
Mr Impey, EEP/DTI Mr Edmonds, HMT Miss Lamb, DOE
Mr Guy, SEAD
Mr Stone, HKD
Mr Kelly, FED
Political Adviser, Hong Kong
Chanceries:
Seoul
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur Bangkok
P.S. Since signing this letter I have just received the att'd kelletter
from Mike Jackson in Seoul
Time
a
to consult as it
Seoul, about privatization. I have not had
me as
on consider it fully
but it strikes me
helpful input, which could be raised at tomorrow's cwa.
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