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K P Margolis Esq
British
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HKA 431393/7 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51
2 8 JAN 1981
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APPOINTMENT TO HONG KONG
1. we spoke on the telephone recently about your transfer to Hong kong.
2. I have discussed this with FUD and they confirm that you will in effect be going on direct transfer. However, we and they agree that you must come to London for briefing, and I suggest that two weeks would be needed for this. Apart from familiarising yourself with the Vietnamese refugee industry, both official and unofficial and voluntary, we shall want to talk to you in detail, as no doubt will FEL. You might also have to spend some time on air services, which is an active subject at the moment and is an import- ant aspect of our day-to-day relations with the Chinese. I would also suggest that you make your number with the two banks and, if time permits, with some of the large trading companies. Le chall be happy to draw up a programme.
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An additional suggestion is that you should go to Geneva in order to make your number with the UNIC and Umib. From a finance point of view, the preference would be for you to go via Geneva on your outward trip to Hong Kong, as Iain Crr did on his return from home leave last year. if this created difficulties for you in terms of your own plans for getting to hong Long, we would be prepared to put up a case for your visiting Geneva from laris. With regular air connections, I imagine this could be done in a day and we would of course need to clear it with Ul. in advance.
As regards the timing of your briefing, I would sugest not before master but at any time between then and your departure which is convenient to you. Let me have dates when you can so that we can go ahead with getting the formal authority for the visit and arranging the programs.
5. The appointent itself is, as you appreciate, outside the normal run of bassi,uments and you will be receiving & formal letter of appointment setting out the conditions of service. we shall begin work on this soon and I shall try and let you see, on a strictly personal basis, a draft before the letter issues from 10D.
cc: ir Patterson, FCD
1 Morrice
Long nong and General Department
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