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CYPHER/CAT A & BY BAG

CONFIDENTIAL

IMMEDIATE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NUMBER 762

CONFIDENTIAL. 121700Z.

NEUTRAL.

TO TOKYO

8zy

12 NOVEMBER 1970

(MTU 15/393/1)

TO BE ON DESKS BY 0900, 13TH NOVEMBER.

ADDRESSED TO TOKYO TELEGRAM NO. 762 OF 12 NOVEMBER, REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG, WASHINGTON, UKMIS GENEVA, UKDEL EEC AND SAVING TO UKDEL OECD.

YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 811.

GENERALISED PREFERENCES.

316

WE ARE TO HOLD DISCUSSIONS IN LONDON ON 23 25 NOVEMBER WITH

SIR D. TRENCH AND HONG KONG OFFICIALS DURING WHICH INTER ALIA WE

HOPE TO ESTABLISH AN AGREED POSITION ABOUT PARTIAL SOLUTIONS UNDER

THE GPS FOR HONG KONG EXPORTS.

2. ON THE OTHER HAND WE ALSO SEE MERIT IN PROPOSAL IN UKMIS GENEVA

02) TELEGRAM NO. 772, MAIN OBJECT AS WE SEE IT IS TO KEEP JAPANESE

DECISION OPEN AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, IN THE HOPE THAT SOMETHING

FAVOURABLE CAN BE EXTRACTED FROM THE EEC AND THEN THE AMERICANS.

SUBJECT TO HONG KONG'S VIEWS, WE GIVE YOU DISCRETION TO PUT TO

JAPANESE JONES'S SUGGESTION · PERHAPS ON PERSONAL BASIS - IF THIS

SEEMS REQUIRED TO PREVENT ANY FINAL ADVERSE DECISION BY THEM.

3. WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE COMMISSION THAT DAHRENDORF WILL

SAY TO THE JAPANESE THAT THE COMMUNITY HAVE NOT YET DECIDED

WHETHER HONG KONG WILL BE INCLUDED IN THEIR SCHEME. HE WILL ASK

THE JAPANESE THEMSELVES NOT TO TAKE ANY PREMATURE DECISION ON

HONG KONG.

DOUGLAS-HOME

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

T.P.D.

H.K.D.

E.X.D.

P.E.D.

AMERICAN D.

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CONFIDENTIAL

COPIES TO:

MR. C.H. KEMMIS,

CRE 1, D.T.I.

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