TNAG-0162-FCO40-198-Export-of-textiles-to-Norway-and-Sweden-1969 — Page 103

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W(BH. 51-74 33

Registry No.

KK 6/531/1

DRAFT

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

To:-

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

0. H. Kemmis, Esq., Board of Trade.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

Type 1 +

From

H. H. Stewart

24.

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

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of any figured

produced by

Swedes.

Thank you for the record you sent of

our meeting on 2 January 1969 about Hong Kong

textile exports to Sweden: This is in my

Avinmarg

opinion an accurate record of what I found

to be a very useful discussion.

have one reservation.

However, I

2. So far as I know, Mr Jordan was without

instructions from his Government when we were

considering between us the line which might

be followed on the Swedish request for restraint

when actual negotiations began. To that

extent (we were not really in a position to

reach the agreement you record in your

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paragraph 4:

3. I see that you have sent Sellers of

the Hong Kong Government office a copy of

the same record, and I am also copying this

letter to him. I imagine that he will send the

record to his Ministry when, if the Hong Kong

Government should happen to disagree with our

line, they will no doubt say so.

Presumably

there is the further possibility that the

information Mr Jordan hopes to extract in

Stockholm will be found to dictate a somewhat different negotiating line, mood to say

Waan I need

is that we should not at this early stage seek to bind ourselves to any particular

conetusion on objectives and tactics.

/Whether it

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