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...In Confidence
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
E Schulze-Rauschenbach Esq
Embassy of the Federal Republic of
Germany
23 Belgrave Square LONDON SW1X 8PZ
Type 1 +
From
T J DAVID
Telephone No. Ext.
233 4777
Department
HONG KONG & GENERAL
1. I am writing to reply to your letter of 23 November
to Mr Makepeace in Energy Department about the proposed visit of the "Otto Hahn" to Hong Kong, since it has been agreed that this department should assume responsibility within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the arrange- ments that will be necessary. I apologise for the delay in
replying but I understand that you have been in touch
with Mr Makepeace regarding the proposed visit and that representatives of the ship's owners, GKSS, also discussed it with the Hong Kong authorities earlier this year.
2.
I am pleased to say that, subject to the ship's owners reaching satisfactory arrangements with the Hong Kong Government on such questions as insurance and safety, we would have no objections to the visit going ahead. I suggest that the next step should be for the ship's owners or your own Consulate-General in Hong Kong to get in touch with the Hong Kong authorities about these matters.
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