TNAG-0309-FCO40-345-Contributions-of-Hong-Kong-for-costs-of-maintaining-military-1971 — Page 7

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Your telegram No. 528

DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION

1.

Decision set out in my telegram No. 553

was taken by Ministers collectively he had

before them full details of your own proposals.

In seeking to secure support of Executive Council

for our proposals you should not say anything

at this stage about the use of the reserved

powers.

2.

Figures in paragraph 2 of my telegram No. 553

were included to illustrate kind of arrangement

HMG would be prepared to accept. In example

given balance of capital works programme would

be paid for by HMG.

3.

It is confirmed that the 2 further conditions

referred to in your paragraph 3 should be included.

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