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TO PURLIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
12 NOVEVS68 1972
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DEPUTIES' MEETING 4 NOVEMBER,
WHEN I GAVE LUNCH TO MUELLER-THUNS TODAY I SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT
THE AGENDA ON THE LINES AUTHORISED BY SIR C, O'NEILL AS FOLLOWS:- (A) TRANSITIONAL PERIODS WE WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS: AND SIR C. O'NEILL WOULD BE SPEAKING ON THIS TO SACHS WHEN HE SAW HIM AT 18,33 ON THE 3RD NOVCMBER, MUELLER- THUNS COUNTERED WITH QUOTE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD UNQUOTE IN THE SINGULAR: AND I SAID THAT THIS WOULD PRESENT US WITH SERIOUS DIFFICULTY, HE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT A NEUTRAL SOLUTION LIKE QUOTE THE MECHANISMS OF TRANSITION UNQUOTE COULD PROBABLY BE
USED.
(3) THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
(1) HONG KONG, MUELLER-THUNS SAID THAT THE PERMANENT REP- RESENTATIVES HAD SET UP A WORKING PARTY OF THE SIX TO LOOK TOWARDS A SOLUTION WHICH, SINCE THEY DID NOT CONSIDER THAT HONG KONG COULD BE ASSOCIATED UNDER PART IV OF THE TREATY WOULD WORK TOWARDS QUOTE OTHER SOLUTIONS UNQUOTE. MUELLER- THUNS SAID THAT WE SHOULD INTERPRET THIS AS MEANING TOWARDS
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