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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

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HONG KONG

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J.A.B. Stewart, Esq., O.B.E., Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Hong Kong Department, King Charles Street,

SW1A 2AH,

LONDON,

5th May 1977

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Hakim Henley

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I am writing on an incident which took Place on Friday 22nd April during the ESCAP UN LKICOlenary session in Bangkok. It took place before

I arrived, and was recorded by Peter Tsao, the Deputy Director for Commercial Relations of the Commerce and Industry Department.

2.

Asia and

Healey, the leader of the UK delegation approached the Hon. Q.W. Lee, who was leading the Hong Kong delegation, about the text of the Hong Kong "Country Statement" to be delivered later that day. Lee had given an advance copy (version enclosed) to Healey as a matter of courtesy.

3.

Healey said he was unhappy with the draft (sic) speech in several respects, and suggested (in addition to one stylistic change and an amendment which would have changed the sense of a sentence) :

(a)

(b)

an additional phrase referring to the difficulties which the textile industry in certain developed countries faced, to be added to paragraph 7 in which Lee was to say that some developed countries wanted to make the MFA more restrictive;

that a reference to one developed country imposing global quota under Article XIX of the GATT on all garments, inspite of bilateral agreements should be deleted because it might be misconstrued as a reference to the UK. When it was explained to Healey that the reference to a developed country was in fact to Canada, Healey said he still had reservations because of the UK's

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