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PRIORITY FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NUMBER 474

CONFIDENTIAL.

HONG KONG AND THE EEC.

REF.

38

TO HONG KONG

16 JULY 1978

(HK)

DENMAN, UNDER SECRETARY BOARD OF TRADE, WHO IS A MEMBER OF OUR NEGOTIATING TEAM FOR ENTRY INTO EEC, WOULD LIKE TO VISIT HONG KONG TO DISCUSS WITH APPROPRIATE PEOPLE PROBLEMS INVOLVED FOR HONG KONG

IN OUR JOINING ENLARGED COMMUNITIES. VISIT WOULD BE FOR BRIEFING PURPOSES AND HE WOULD LIKE IT CARRIED OUT AS DISCREETLY AS POSSIBLE, CONFINING HIS CONTACTS TO OFFICIALS. IF, HOWEVER, IT PROVED DESIRABLE THAT HE SHOULD SEE ANYONE OUTSIDE OFFICIAL CIRCLES AND IF

THIS COULD BE DONE WITHOUT INFRINGING THE ''DISCREET'' NATURE OF

HIS VISIT SUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS COULD NO DOUBT BE MADE DURING HIS

TIME IN HONG KONG.

2. OWING TO OTHER COMMITMENTS DENMAN WOULD PLAN TO LEAVE HERE ON 3 AUGUST ARRIVING IN HONG KONG ON THE AFTERNOON OF 4 AUGUST AND

TO STAY FOR THREE FULL DAYS OR SO.

3. WE SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL AND HOPE DATE SUGGESTED FOR VISIT WILL

BE CONVENIENT TO YOU.

DOUGLAS-HOME

FILES:

H.K.D.

E.I.D.

3A912

aw HK Tues 44 Duaj: 1535 local

on the back 15th.k. BAA COPIES TO:

MR. DENMAN, B.O.T.

E.C.I.U. T.P.D. COMMODITIES D.

SIR L. MONSON SIR C. O'NEILL HR. BOTTOMLEY

DDDDD

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