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FINANCIAL AND STAFFING IMPLICATIONS
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15.
The proposal has no financial or staffing
implications. Any additional workload arising from the
conduct of VAA negotiations will be absorbed within
existing resources.
PUBLIC REACTION
16.
This is a potentially semmitive issue.
Successful negotiations are likely to be well received,
particularly where they involve countries with close
links to Hong Kong. Conversely, there could be an
adverse effect on confidence i we failed to reach
agreement with the Chinese on the principle of VAA's,
or were linaniccoeoful
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PUBLICITY
17.
There will be no publicity, and we will not
issue a Legislative Council Brief pending consultat on
with the Chinese, However, we will prepare a prens
line to answer media enquiries.