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Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s)

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

PRIORITY MARKINGS

(Date)

Despatched

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential Restricted Unclassified

Emergency Immediate

*

Priority Routine

15/2

En Clar. Code Cypher

Draft Telegram to:-

Hồng Kong

No....

(Date)

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Security classification -if any

[Codeword-if any....

Addressed to

telegram No..

And to..

Hong

Kong

(date)

(S)

Bussels.

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repeated for information/to.

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Your telegram No. 601.

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EEC CONSULTATIONS

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We take your point about the presentational

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on

merit in Hong Kong of reiterating our 1961

request for associate status

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But as our,

adrantage aim is to carry through the negotiations

quite some diradios lage) u

swiftly, we regret that we are not prepared to

put to the Six a proposal which we know in

The Six's vicer advance to be unacceptable. the view that

it would be inappropriate to apply Part IV of

the Rome Treaty to the case of Hong Kong wo

Was made/particularly clear during the last

negotiations.

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In general we do not think it

would be reasonable to ask on behalf of Hong

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Kong more than we were asking when the

negotiations broke down; hence our view that.

our decision must be based on the proposals.

-7 summarized in my telegram No. 874.

2.

Subject to the foregoing we are of course

anxious to take account of Hong Kong's

interests in any way we can. In the light

of your views we agree that it would be useful

to hold bilateral talks. We would prefer to

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