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Our Reference:
7 August 1992
J Morris Esq Hong Kong Dept FCO
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too much encouragement for the whackier end of his ideas if we agreed to the additional para he presses. What do your birth? I asted the swixed transition paper
and Mor
Days minute of 21 July
(a boudlerited version has been copied for sending to him. albo attacked)
AD HOC COORDINATING COMMITTEE
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Telephone: 523 0176
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Many thanks for sending us a text of the terms of reference for this group. I wonder if there is not still some
misunderstanding.
2.
While it is fine as Your text refers only to the building. far as that is concerned it does not relate to the more complicated and equally pressing issues of staffing, transfer of responsibilities etc. It was in order to monitor these that I suggested the setting up of a coordinating group with a remit to cover all aspects of the evolution into à Consulate-General.
3. In the light of our meetings in London on 17 July I set out these thoughts and how we might organise a parallel group of businessmen in a minute that was typed up in your Department on 20 July and I left with you the following day. (Could a copy of that please be sent to me - I left the only copy with you?)
4. In addition to the building design, the immediate issues
and which we that are of concern to colleagues in Hong Kong
The revised I would expect to discuss in the coordinating group
paper.
Transition"
are the timetable for the main steps to 1997 (I think you are working on a draft) and staff changes, especially the recruitment, training and development of a core of LE staff who will underpin the assumption of immigration and other functions.
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