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FM NEW DELHI
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 1053
OF 15120OZ CCTOBER 92
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG
INFO ROUTINE PEKING
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1. THE JOINT SECRETARY (AUS EQUIVALENT) FOR EAST ASIA IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS TOLD US THAT MINISTER OF STATE FALEIRO IS LIKELY TO VISIT HONG KONG AT THE END OF OCTOBER. PRECISE DATES AND WE HAVE YET TO RECEIVE ANY VISA APPLICATIONS). MENON FLOATED INFORMALLY THE IDEA OF A CALL ON THE GOVERNOR. WE POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS LIKELY TO BE PAYING HIS FIRST VISIT TO PEKING AT AROUND THIS TIME. MENON ALSO MENTIONED CONTINUING INDIAN INTEREST IN THE LEGAL POSITION AFTER 1997 OF ETHNIC INDIANS RESIDENT IN HONG KONG.
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THE DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER IS DUE TO SEE MENON AGAIN ON 20 OCTOBER. IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO KNOW BEFORE THEN WHETHER THERE IS ANYTHING YOU OR HONG KONG WOULD LIKE US TO SAY ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR A CALL ON THE GOVERNOR, AND WHETHER THERE HAVE BEEN ANY SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS ON HONG KONG INDIANS SINCE THE LAST TIME THIS WAS RAISED WITH US CHONG KONG TELNO 190 REFERS). THERE HAVE BEEN NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS AT THIS END SINCE COLLIS'
LETTER OF 31 JULY 1991 TO HKD, FCO.
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James Rawlinson 2377,
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