TNAG-0137-FCO40-173-Supply-of-political-and-economic-information-to-Hong-Kong-to-1969 — Page 71

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The Hong Kong Government would be most

grateful if you could arrange to let them have copies of some of your reports on political and economic

developments in ..

for the use of the Hong

Kong Department of Commerce & Industry.

Letter to The Ambassador or High Commissioner in:-

Stockholm, Oslo,

Copenhagen

Bonn,

The Hague,

Rome,

Brussels,

Paris,

Djakarta,

Manilla,

Saigon,

Bangkok,

Tokyo,

Kuala Lumpur,

2.

The Department of Commerce & Industry,

which performs here functions similar to those of the

Board of Trade in London, finds itself from time to

time confronted with the urgent need to form a view

on some action or policy by a foreign government or

It is to prepare a brief for its negotiators. obviously a great help for the Department to have the

best possible information about the political and

economic factors of that country that need to be

taken into account.

Singapore,

Pretoria,

Canberra,

Wellington.

Lagos

Ottawa

(added

Vienna

by E

U.K. Delegation to EEC

A

TO OFCD

3.

A secondary reason for wanting such

information is that, whilst the senior members of the

You go Department have travelled widely, many of the junior

Oki

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know

The

staff have never been out of Hong Kong.

He

To read of read me? reports (from the more important markets is a

necessary part of their education.

4.

The kind of material I have in mind is the

general survey of some aspect of the political and or

economic situation which would normally be the

subject of a despatch, but there might also be the

occasional letter that might be copied to us. I do

not think that we should ever need to receive any-

thing graded higher than 'Confidential”

•

/contd..