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imf.ADM.JRB
Mr Hum
PS/Mr Goodlad
CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: P F Ricketts
DATE:
Hong Kong Department
November 1993
cc: PS/Lady Chalker
Sir J Coles
Mr Muir
Mr Tebbit, ERD
Mr Fry, FED Mr Powell, ODA
Mr Sedgwick, HMT
HONG KONG: IMF/IBRD 1997 ANNUAL MEETINGS
Mr Cunliffe, HMT
Mr Mortimer, HMT
Mr Bullock, BOE RMD
Problem
Documents required from Britain and China by the IMF/IBRD for the 1997 Annual Meetings.
1.
Recommendation
are instrates
IBRD
2. That we instruct UKDEL IMF/IBRD to inform the institutions
that we can accept the proposed documentation.
Background
3. In my submission of 8 October I recommended that we instruct UKDEL to advise the IMF/IBRD that we could accept their proposed package of procedural arrangements for the 1997 Annual Meetings. UKDEL's advice at that stage was that the package was the best we were likely to get and that it met our objective of protecting Hong Kong's autonomy and that HMG would not have to
assume any contingent liability.
avoiding financial
in terms of meeting
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