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Hong Kong Department

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8 October, 1969

Thank you for your letter of 7 October.

We have sent the telegram you suggest, but to Oslo only. To Hong Kong Michael Wilford has sent a personal telegram which informs them that we have decided to say our piece to the Norwegians, but goes rather further in explaining why we do not accept the Governor's argument than a mere copy of the Oslo telegram would.

We have in mind that at some time in the fairly near future we shall be discussing with the Governor this question of the extent of Hong Kong's negotiating authority. But this does not mean, of course, that we envisage any gloss on the definition of Hong Kong's powers (at which we have already worked so hard) which would allow Hong Kong to object to what you rightly called in an earlier minute so "mild an intervention" as we intend in this

Norwegian case.

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D. I. Dunnett, Esq., Board of Trade.