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Reference....

Mr. Kinnear, Hong Kong Department

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Hong Kong and the GPS

Mr. Perceval's minute of 9 November, and draft paragraphs for the brier on the visit of Mr. Marshall Greer

2. we should like to see a revise to paragraph 5 of the draft brief. We should like it to read:

"Amercian exclusion of Hong Kong would quite

possibly induce the EEC to follow suit. This would add further complicate our EEC entry negotiations. It would also mean that the UK, having drawn on Community goodwill in seeking to achieve some solution to the problems for Hong Kong caused by our entry, would be in a correspondingly worse position to exert her influence, once inside the Community, towards the creation of outward-looking trading policies."

MPakenham

(M. A. Pakenham)

European Integration Department

10 November, 1970.

Copied to:

Mr. Perceval, TPD American Department

Far Eastern Department

Mr. Pakenham,

E. 1.D.

This mumite arrived this morning, too late for meeting with her. Marshall Green on

11 November.

However, Mr.Poyle who was to see Mr. Green on 11 November, was prevented from doing so and, as far as I know, the matter of GPS was therefore not raised with

Mw. Green

14/11/70

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