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IN D.F. HESTY, UIG. 1, Assistent Under Secretory of State, HR 1.0.TECH, Head of Accommodation end Services Department. I .C. GOODISON, CIG, Held of Southom. Turono Department, 12 P.L. 0, C70, Head of Hong Kong
CVO, end Indien Coern Department, in G.. HORCROFT, Assistant, Overseas Accommodation and Services Department, in D.F. KIWOW, Assistant in the Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, and in p.F. BURDEN, Head of Claims Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, called in and examined.
CHATIAN: Good, ofte moon, gentlemen.
;
Could I put this question to you
to start with: in relation to Hong Hong, the new teritories could not be given up without the question of the future of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island
being affectod. It is like one city. Would that be your view?
A. (ir Homlex) Yes, that would be our view. You cannot seperate the
integral parts.
4. You regard Hong Kong as important in the context of Sino-British
relations?
C.
A. It is very important in that context.
As I understand it, it was really an inlet for foreign exchange to
go into China? A. I think that would be right, but if you want to go into any detail on that perhaps I could ask I O'Keeffe to speak. He is the Head
of the Hong Kong Department.
MR ROPER: As well as being a source of
helping with the balance
of payments in China it is also a conciderable balance of payments
Are you
advantage to the United Kingdon.
able to give us an estimates
of what effect Hong Kong has on the United Kingdom balance of payments? A. (Mr O'Keeffe) Strictly speaking the answer to that must be no, because
of the way in which the invisible account is made up.
It does not
7 distinguish between territories, and therefore from a statistical point of
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