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A Stuart Esq

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Dear Andrew

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- 2 MAY 1974

HKK 19/2

I am now in a position to give you the Home Office view on the future of the Anglo/US/Hong Kong co-operation which started with our meeting in Hong Kong in June last year. The Home Office agrees that this co-operation should

continue, and approval has been given to my continuing to represent the UK at the meetings.

You will, no doubt, wish to consult the Government of Hong Kong on this matter (and to approach the Governor personally on the confidential matters in relation to the Commissioner of Narcotics, which we discussed at our meeting after my return from Geneva). I think that the simplest way to give you the necessary briefing on this from our side is to send you the enclosed copy of the submission which I sent on this matter to my Under-Secretary. You will also wish to see the enclosed correspondence which I had immediately after the Geneva meeting with Norman Rolph.

If you and the Hong Kong Government are in agreement with our view that these meetings should continue and that there should be a meeting this year, as suggested, in Washington, it might be helpful for you to inform Hong Kong at this stage that so far as I am concerned, convenient dates for such a meeting would be in the first three weeks in July. Norman Rolph told me that he was likely to be in the UK on leave at about that time and would be able to make the trip to Washington.

Yours sincerely

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