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Communities could be very far reaching for
the ordinary citizen of Hong Kong and if
the outcome was unfavourable, the Government
of Hong Kong would be blamed. Sir J.Cowper-
thwaite agreed; he said that the position
was different from what it had been during
the 1961/63 negotiations: since then many of
Hong Kong's competitors had made significant
advances. The position of Hong Kong was
that she did not wish to be discriminated
against. Sir C. O'Neill said that we were
well aware of the problems which British
entry into the Communities would pose for
would
Hong Kong and we were determined to do it all
we could to mitigate them.
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