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Sterling 24.
Sir Murray MacLehose had discussed this with the Bank of
England and he would also be having discussions at official level with the Treasury. Lord Goronwy-Roberts asked to be kept informed.
Hong Kong and the EEC
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Sir Murray MacLehose was grateful for what the Secretary of State had said about Hong Kong in his major statement on 4 June. He again stressed the importance to Hong Kong of access to the UK
market.
26.
Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that while the Secretary of State might not refer to every point of renegotiation in every meeting with EEC ministers, HMG had Hong Kong very much in mind: it was illogical that the agreements inherited from the previous Government had actually discriminated in favour of Hong Kong's competitors in the UK market.
Register of Shipping
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Sir Murray MacLehose had discussed this with Department
of Trade officials.
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SAS were not pushing their application particularly strongly. However, Sir Murray MacLehose said he would tell the Hong Kong press that he had reaffirmed the importance which Hong
Kong attach to this.
Illegal Immigration from South Vietnam and Other Third Countries
29.
It had just been confirmed that one of the 118 South Vietnamese recently returned to Vietnam had previously been tried and sentenced to death on smuggling charges. He was to be retried and would be liable to severe punishment though, almost certainly, not a death sentence. Sir Murray MacLehose observed that the South Vietnamese authorities had qualified their assurances by saying that smugglers would be liable for punishment.
The person concerned had given a false name in Hong Kong and Lord Goronwy Roberts thought that HMG could reply reasonably to any criticism
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