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guarantee a number of Hong Kong's liabilities, both actual and contingent. Apart from that, I am not aware of any recent occasion when we became involved with Hong Kong's relationship with the AsDB. But Mr Freeman has now asked me some questions about the relationship between the UK delegation on the one hand and the Hong Kong representatives on the other at the Annual Meeting. For example, should we ask to see the Hong Kong Governor's speech in draft? Have we any right to do so? UK Minister attends the Annual Meeting as Head of the UK Delegation (see paragraph 3 of my minute of 16 March about briefing), would he or she be "senior" in protocol terms to Mr Macleod and if so, does this have any implications for what is said in the UK and Hong Kong Governors' statements? Or does the question of "seniority" not arise in this context?
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4. I suspect that in practice the relationship between our two delegations will be no different from what it would be in any other Annual Meeting venue. But I should be grateful for any views which you may have; you may like to telephone me in the first instance. I presume in any case that your brief will cover where necessary the constitutional relationship between the UK and Hong Kong and its relevance to international gatherings of this kind.
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Mrs J C Radice
International Financial Institutions Department