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TELNO
OF 151208Z JAN 93
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HKD BL 408/2
REC
15 JAN 1993
FROM BERTRAM, OED
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OUR TELNO 2 AND YOUR TELN011: BUDGET IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE
CONSULATE-GENERAL
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We appreciate your concern to know more about the issues
covered in first TUR. Please reassure your committee that there
has never been any intention of keeping its members in the dark.
We are sorry that we were not able to bring you and indeed Mr
Hum's Steering committee into the picture at an earlier stage.
We had hoped to avoid facing you with making cuts in the
building. Once this appeared inevitable, we sought to move as
fast as possible to prevent decisions on these difficult choices
holding up the critical path for construction. With hindsight it
would have been better to have postponed the 6 January Steering
Committee meeting until we had canvassed the views of
allconcerned, (in particular your committee) on the proposed
cuts. We hope that the information in this telegram will give
you a better insight into where we now stand on building costs
and how we arrived at this position.
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BUDGET
HKD
D BARNES JONES
270 2068
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