TNAG-0306-FCO40-342-Equipment-for-technical-institutes-in-Hong-Kong-provision-of-1971 — Page 195

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EQUIPMENT FOR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES IN HONG KONG

1. With reference to your recent submission, and to Sir L. Monson's minute of 8 January, Mr. Bottomley (who has now left for Singapore) has asked me to make the following point which I gather arises from a brief discussion at the PUS's morning meeting today. In arranging for an agreed statement of disagreed views to be put to the Secretary of State by Mr. Royle and Mr. Wood, you may find it useful to obtain and mention the DTI's opinion on the proposal's potential commercial advantage. 92. Although trade promotion is not the primary purpose of the aid programme, the ODA should not be allowed to get away with the view that aid provided with trade promotion as an objective should come from DTI votes rather than ODA ones. The agreed interdepartmental doctrine is that trade promotion is a legitimate if subsidiary objective of our aid policy. You may like to draw on the attached copy of the Guidelines for the Operation of the Aid Programme which were agreed in 1969. The relevant passages are paragraphs 23 ii, iv and v(d); the first sentence of paragraph 31; and paragraph 32 v and ix.

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Radha

(R. L. Wade-Gery)

11 January, 1971.

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