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PRIORITY FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.

TELEGRAM NUMBER 699

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13 OCTOBER 1979

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HONG KONG - E.5.C.

THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT THE COMMUNITY DELEGATION MAY TELL US AT THE NEXT MEETING OF DEPUTIES IN BRUSSELS ON 14 OCTOBER THAT THEY

ARE HOT PREPARED TO ASSOCIATE HONG KONG WITH THE ENLARGED COMMUNITY

UNDER PART IV OF THE ROME TREATY.

2. IF THE COMMUNITY DELEGATION TAKE THIS LINE, OUR DELESATION WILL

EXPRESS THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT, AND GO ON TO SAY THAT IT WILL BE ALL

THE MORE IMPORTANT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE AN EARLY DISCUSSION WITH THE

COMMUNITY ABOUT THE FUTURE RELATIONSHIP OF HONG KONG WITH THE

ENLARGED COMMUNITY AND THAT THIS DISCUSSION YOULD CLEARLY NEED

TO COVER THE TREATMENT OF HONG KONG UNDER UNCTAD, THEY WILL EXPRESS

THE HOPE THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL DEFER ANY DECISION ON THE LATTER

POTUIT UNTIL THEY AND WE HAVE CONSIDERED TOGETHER THE WHOLE QUESTION

OF THE COMMUNITY'S RELATIONS WITH HONG KONG, AND WE WILL ASK FOR EARLY DISCUSSION.

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