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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1

Telephone 01- 930-2323 Ext 1383

JB Ingram Esq

Department of Trade 1 Victoria Street LONDON SW1

Dear John,

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51

Your reference

Our reference

Date

6 November 1974

11 NOV 1974

HKK 6/598/1

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1. I enclose for you and other recipients copies of a first shot of a brief I have prepared for next week's Council discussion on GSP.

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I have not yet seen your Minister's final paper on GSP and it may be that fairly substantial revision will be required in the light of that. I have based my draft largely on the paper enclosed with Sidney Abramson's letter of 31 October to Brian Cubbon and the most recent GSP reporting telegrams from UKREP Brussels.

3. I should be grateful if I could have comments on the draft by, at the latest, close of play on Thursday, 7 November.

4.

I should particularly welcome comments of Timms on the statement about Hong Kong. I hope that we shall be able to use this as the basis for answering Hong Kong telegram No 1091.

Yours sincerely. Argen.

R D Hart

European Integration Department (External)

cc:

Miss C Welch DOT

N Brecknell Esq Cabinet Office

DK Timms Esq HKIOD FCO

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