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RESTRIC TED

Personnel Operations Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH

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British Trade Commission. 179

D M March Esq,

Hong Kong

Your reference

Our reference INDIV D M MARCH

29 MAR 71

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Date

28 March 1979

IND.

No

24/3

See HKK 414, (8)

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1981

1. This letter is to serve as the directive which the Inspectors suggested you should be sent as Senior British Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong.

2.

Your principal functions and therefore those of your Trade Commission are:-

a.

b.

C.

d.

e.

3.

a.

b.

to increase British exports to Hong Kong;

to make use of the opportunities afforded by Hong Kong for the promotion of British trade in the region, particularly British exports to China, Macao and, indirectly, Taiwan. For China, the China Trade Section of the Trade Commission will, under your direction, supplement the efforts of the Mission in Peking for the promotion of Sino-British trade;

to provide advice and assistance, in coordination where appropriate with the Hong Kong Government, to visiting British Ministers, MPs, officials, businessmen and VIPs, to the extent that their visits are concerned with the promotion of British exports. Unless you are specifically informed to the contrary, you will not be responsible for the general coordination of visits to Hong Kong by British Ministers or senior officials: this responsibility will normally lie with the Hong Kong Government;

to project Britain as a vigorous and stable trading nation and a technological leader among industrial nations;

to direct enquirers in the consular field to the appropriate Departments in the Hong Kong Government.

Your supervisory functions cover the following:

the operation and administration of the British Diplomatic Services Mail Office (BDSMO);

the administration of the Press Research Unit (PRU), the taking of the Unit being the responsibility of the Department in London, the British Embassy in Peking, and the Political Adviser to the Governor (Hong Kong);

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