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DEPARTMENT
HKK 6/312/1
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Top Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
Hong Kong
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(Date)
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Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s).
28/4/69
169
46
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Draft Telegram to:-
UKMIS Geneva
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Addressed to UKMIS GENEVA
telegram No. 140.
(date)
28/4
And to
14
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repeated for information to
HONG KONG
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(Date) 0.8/4
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Repeat to:-
For Jones.
Hong Køng
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28/x.
Copies to:-
Saving Telegram No. 57 and Jones' report to
Hong Kong of 18 April: French Import Restrictions.
Further to my Telegram No. 139.
Your tactics in the Residual Restrictions
Group were clearly well chosen since the French
have responded in a reasonably satisfactory way.
In particular it is noteworthy that they neither
attempted to deny that Hong Kong possessed GATT
rights, as Collin appeared to at the talks in
Hong Kong, nor denied the status of Hong Kong as
a developing country implied by your raising the
subject in an organ of the CTD.
2.
The examination of non-tariff barriers in
the IFC is in part an exercise of confrontation
and justification, and it is therefore appropriate
that we should continue to press the French in that
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