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PROJECTS COMMITTEE SUBMISSIONS
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SIR D. WAT YOU
↑ Departments were asked in Baragraph 5 of the Note
which was holds
of the Meeting to discuss aid strategy hied in ODM on
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24 Bebruary to inform their Under-Secretaries of any projects in the pipeling which did not appear to
conform with Mrs Hart's policy criteria on aid.
2 We have two such projects in the pipeline for
Hong Kong. They are:
a £500,000 for books and equipment for the Hong
Kong Polytechnic and
b £400,000 for equipment for four new technical
institutes.
FCO
Public announcements were made by/Ministers, with
ODM Ministerial agreement, in 1971 and 1972 about
arastett these grants. During that time We were going through
a particularly difficult time in our relations with
Hong Kong and these projects were seen as meeting an
need for outward and visible signs of a special and
beneficial relationship with the UK.
3 In Sehtember 1973 we prepared a paper for submission
to Projects Committee but it was agreed at an informal
meeting at ODM that it should not formally come
before the Committee until more detailed information
had been obtained both on the Polytechnic, which
was then in its infancy, and on the technical/
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