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MINISTERIAL VISITS COMMITTEE MEETING:

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PROPOSED VISIT BY SECRETARY OF STATE TO HONG KONG IN 1972

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1. The original intention was that the Secretary of

State should visit Hong Kong in April 1972. This was

in response to an invitation extended by the Governor,

in his capacity as Chancellor of the Chinese University

of Hong Kong, to a Minister to visit the Colony as a

guest of the University to open the University's Science

Centre. The Minister would also meet the participants

in the General/Conference of Vice-Chancellors and C.c. Pete Set Principals of Commonwealth Universities which was to be

Procte Siv S, Tomlinson held in Hong Kong at the same time. The plan was that

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C.C. Mr Wilford Wieparse

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the Secretary of State should go on to Australia from

Hong Kong for the SEATO meeting (provided that the dates

fitted) and to New Zealand.

2. The above proposals were provisionally agreed with

the Governor (and in confidence with the University

authorities) subject to the Secretary of State's other

commitments. There the matter rests so far as Hong

Kong is concerned.

3. It now seems clear that the SEATO meeting will take

place at the end of June (27/28 June). The Secretary

of State does not feel that he could manage a trip to the

Far East in April as well as another visit shortly

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/afterwards