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SUGLISTED VISIT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO

HONG KONG OR 972

In May 1971 the Ministerial Visits Committee

discussed the question of a visit by the Secretary

of State to Hong Kong. The matter arose in

connection with 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.

would also meet the participants in the General

Conference of Vice Chancellors/which was to be

held in Hong Kong at the same time.

The Minister

2. A parallel approach had been made to us by

the Inter University Council for Higher Education

Overseas.

3.

The date provisionally proposed for the visit

was April 1972 and the Royal Visits Committee

thought that this invitation would fit in with the

Secretary of State's own wish to visit Hong Kong

and that it c uld be combined with a

next year;

visit to New Zealand and with the Secretary of

State's attendance at SEATO (the next SEATO meeting

was to be held in Canberra and on normal form

would be held in April).

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