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REOF. RECKY
10 SE 1975
TO ROUTINE HONG KONG TELNO 65 SAVING OF 8 SEPTEMBER.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION, PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MARITIME CONFERENCE, GENEVA 13-24 OCTOBER 1974
1. The Agenda for the Conference referred to above will be
as follows:
I
Industrial Relations in the Shipping Industry
Holidays with Pay for Seafarers
II
III
The Protection of Young Seafarers
IV
RFF
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V
Continuity of Employment of Seafarers
Substandard Vessels, Farticularly those Registered under Flags of Convenience.
Copies of the reports on which discussion of Items II to V will be based have only recently come to hand and these are being sent under separate cover for the information of the Government of Hong Kong. Copies of Report I are still awaited. 3. As you will probably be aware there are special Standing Orders for Technical Tripartite Conferences under which the Governing Body determines the composition of the Conference concerned (Article 1.1 refers) and on this occasion the Governing Body has related invitations to the requirements that the recipient country should have had not less than 700,000 gross register tons of shipping as recorded by Lloyds Register of Shipping in 1972. A few exceptions have been made but on this occasion Hong Kong is not listed among the proposed participants. Although not all Member States of the ILO are represented at Preparatory Technical Maritime Conferences, the rights of the Member States of the Organisation as a whole are safeguarded by the fact that they can attend the Maritime Session of the Conference at which the final Instruments are adopted. Under Conference Standing Orders all British non-metropolitan territories will of course be able to send tripartite observer delegations to the 1976 Maritime Session.
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