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CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT
minute
Type 1 +
From
To:-
Mr Amery
Mr Royle
Telephone No. & Ext.
MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON EUROPE
Department
HONG KONG AND THE COMMUNITY'S GENERALISED SCHEME OF PREFERENCES
1.
I attach a draft of a paper which I hope you
prepared
will be ready to submit to the Ministerial Committee
have
on Europe. This will need to be done this week.
2. You will have seen my minute to the Secretary
about
of State on this. I recognise the problems on the
European side which are recorded in the attached
believe
record of the office meeting which I held on
you
have
seen.
28 September on this subject. But this is a matter
of great importance to our interests in Hong Kong,
in which the credibility of the assurances given by
Mr Rippon in 1971 is at stake,
3.
I hope therefore that, if there is resistance
to what we propose in the Ministerial Meeting, you
ME
will be prepared to reserve your position so that
the Secretary of State could be asked to pursue the
matter further in Cabinet.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.