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CYPHER/ONTA.

CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KUNG

TOLERKAM NUMBER 712

CONFIDENTIAL 140€152 [FRAKE]

TO P.C.C.

14 OCTOBER 1979

ALLRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE, LONDON TELEGRAM AUMBIA 712 OF 14 OCTODER 1973 REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO CODEL

BRUSSELS, AMBASSADOR BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE), AND UKHIS GENEVA ра (FOR JONES)

24/10

:

YOUR TELEGRAM 690.

HONG KONG - E.E.C.

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ALTHOUGH I HAVE NOT YET DECIDED WHAT LINE I SHOULD ASK YOU TO

TAKE ON HONG KONG IN THE ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS, WHICH WOULD BE

SUBJECT TO THE OUTCOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS IN LONDON ALREADY TENTATIVELY ARRANGED FOR LATE NOVEMBER, OUR GENERAL FEELING IS

AS WE SAID TO MR. RIPFON- THAT WE SHOULD RE-CONFIRM THE DECISION

WE REACHED IN 1967: WE WOULD NOT SEEK SPECIAL TREATMENT FROY THE

F.E.C. BUT ONLY TO AVOID BEING PISCRIMINATED AGAINST.

2. I SHOULD THEREFORE PREFER THAT THE DELEGATION SHOULD RESPOND

BY EXPRESSING DISAPPOINTMENT AND THEN CONTINUE AS SUGGESTED IN PARA 2 OF CODEL PRUSSELS 165 TO YOU (THE ARGUMENTS IN UKMIS

(247) GENEVA TELEGRAM 795 MIGHT BE USEFUL PERE), RATHER THAN WITH THE

DE

SUGGESTION OF AN EARLY DISCUSSION OF THE FUTURE RELATIONSHIP OF

6/ HONG KONG WITH THE ENLARGED COMMUNITY

*

3. IT SEEMS TO HE DESIRABLE THAT HE SHOULD TRY TO AVOID AT THIS STAGE THE POSITION WHERE E.E.C. EXCLUSION OF HONG KONG FROM THE

G.P.6. WOULD MAKE DISCUSSION OF HONG KONG AS A SPECIAL PROBLEM

UNAVOIDABLE IN THE ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS.

VE SHOULD PREFER TO KEEP THESE THO ISSUES AS SEPARATE AS POSSIBLE

AT THIS STAGE.

(FCO PLEASE PASS FLASH TO CODEL BRUSSELS AND PRIORITY TO AMBASSATOR BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE) AND UKMIS GENEVA (FOR JONES)).

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SIR D TRENCH.

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

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