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FM FCO
TO IMMEDIATE HAMILTON
TELNO
OF 16110OZ OCTOBER 90
AND TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
INFO ROUTINE WELLINGTON, GRAND TURK, PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
YOUR TELNO 135: ALLOCATION OF CALL SIGNS TO HONG KONG
1. We have checked extensively with DTI colleagues.
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Mr Mike Goddard and Mr Mike Davies, both of whom have responsibility for supervising the radio communications agency the deals with call signs, attended the conference in Nice in June 1989 but neither can recall discussion of this subject. any case, no DTI representative would have had authority to speak as reported in para 2 of TUR: although preliminary soundings had been taken, no decision had been made in Whitehall at that stage about the way forward. We regret that this misunderstanding has arisen. But FCO telno 1182 Grand Turk represented the collective view of Whitehall departments.
2. We have looked carefully at the points made in TUR and your suggestion that we should pursue allocation of a new series for Hong Kong's exclusive use from the ITU.
the ITU. This is an option we had already considered in depth. There are two problems. Firstly, it would cause maximum disruption to Hong Kong square
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