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Deborah Barnes Jones Hong Kong Department
5 October 1993
PS/Mr Goodlad
Mr Crowe
Mr MacGregor, ECD (E)
Mr Wright, UKREP Brussels Mr Eaton ) Legal
Miss Brooks) Advisers
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HONG KONG: AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND THE
EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH AN EC COMMISSION OFFICE IN
HONG KONG
Problem
1.
An entrustment is required to authorise the Governor to
conclude an international agreement between the Hong Kong
Government and the Commission establishing the planned
Commission office in Hong Kong and conferring relevant privileges and immunities.
Recommendation
2.
I submit an entrustment in the form of a letter from the
Secretary of State to the Governor (to be conveyed to Hong
Kong by Mr Morris from HKD). I also submit 2 telegrams, one
informing Hong Kong of the dispatch of the entrustment and
another with the text. Our Departmental Legal Adviser agrees.
Background and Argument
3.
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Ministers agreed last month that Hong Kong be authorised to enter into an agreement with the Commission Miss Conroy's submission of 22 September. Further background to the
sub.eccomm.NAT
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