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Mr Andrew Wong
Deputy Representative to the GATT Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Geneva
by fax
19 41 22 733 9904
25 October 1993
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United Kingdom Delegation
to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
19 rue de Franqueville
75116 Paris
Telephone: 45 24 98 28 Facsimile: 45 24 98 37
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jean Andrew.
OECD/HONG KONG
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Over lunch last week (for which my Ambassador has asked that reiterate his thanks to Ambassador Wong, if you would be kind enough to pass these on) Keith MacInnes offered to lobby a number of colleagues on Hong Kong's prospective application for observer status on the OECD Trade Committee. This he duly did in the margins of the Bellinglise meeting of Heads of Delegation.
The only questions put by his interlocutors were as follows:
(a)
(b)
if Hong Kong could be an observer at the Trade Committee why could not Malta etc be observers on the committees in which they wished to participate (eg Tourism)? In response to this observation by the Swiss Ambassador Keith MacInnes replied that it was because Malta etc were not major players in the areas in which they had shown an interest; and,
(more predictably and relevantly) several asked what China thought about the possible application, to which Keith MacInnes replied that whilst there was no need to tell them they would probably be informed as a courtesy and were in any case most unlikely to see any inconsistency with the 1984 Joint
Declaration.
Meanwhile, in case he has not already spoken to you, you will wish to know that my Japanese colleague, Hiramatsu, telephoned me on 22 October to say that he would be contacting you on instructions from Tokyo to confirm his authorities' support for your bid.
Finally I must add my own thanks to those of Keith MacInnes for a most enjoyable luncheon last Wednesday.
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Alastair Newton