DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
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L STEPHENSON
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Reference
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Your Reference
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TO:
DR J HOARE
PEKING
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.... In Confidence
GRATIS VISAS
1. Thank you very much for your very full and helpful
letter of 5 July 1990 about gratis visas.
CAVEAT
2.
As you mention there are particularly strong
political factors to take into consideration, with the
Hong Kong dimension very much uppermost in our thinking.
At a time when we are trying to improve relations with
the Chinese even a relatively minor irritant such as visa
fees could assume a greater significance. We would
clearly rot wish this to happen.
Enclosures flag(s)..........
3
Our position has, for the moment, been much eased by
the fact that our negotiations with the Treasury, over
the question of our cost recovery target, have gone well.
We are not yet home and dry but the Treasury are
sympathetic to a number of our concerns, one being a
realisation that the potential income lost by the issue
of gratis visas should somehow be accommodated within any