TNAG-0249-FCO40-285-Effect-of-entry-of-UK-into-EEC-on-exports-from-Hong-Kong-1970 — Page 116

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You will have seen the suestion in a xeroph z of Hong Kong telegram to PG 10. 475 (cop stuched) that there should be special meeting betwee: United Kingdom And on, one of icials in onion, such as was held In in 1967, to consider whether developmente ince 1987 : ffect the conclusione then tentatively" resched for our nejot'a ting position for Hong Kong. The tolegn m mentioned some time this summer as a quitable occasion for the meetings

The reply (tole, r 15. 1 alco touched suggested that the lon

on. For thorities discus thin with you in Hongong. It warned them that a mor meeting would be difficult of inter uL our preference for the autumn.

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to pophane you could indicate to the Hong Kong authorities:

(e) ur willin to have another round of tlks

at official level on the 1987 lines if they want one;

(b) the problems we see attending such talks,

should they be held in the immediate future e.. the uncert intion survounding the four power talks in Geneva, the long Tong hegotiations, the dong

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tions, the position of our own

negotia

negotiations, the situation as regic the HMD Gonemlised Proference

cheme, c.c.;

(c) and our readiness to meet them at a mutually

convenient tim v in the nutumn. By this date some at least or the uncertainties men tioned above should have clerified to come extent.

We do not of course wint to give the Hong Kong authorities the impression that we are trying to put of & meeting with

L them until the Greek Halendo.

3. In 1967 there were two rounds of talks between the

.. and Hong Kong officials, in July and October.

The

Denman, Esq., C.A.G..

BOARD OF TARUM.