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Mingdom Mission to the United Natio..
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Your reference
MG Hilson Esq
Our reference
United Nations Department
FCO
25 March 1982
Date
WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING: HONG KONG
1. I was relieved to hear from our telephone conversation that there was no intention to press any application for Hong Kong to attend this Assembly in its own capacity.
2. I should nevertheless be grateful for any background on our enquiry about the appropriateness of such attendance by Hong Kong. I am not aware of any precedent for Hong Kong's representation at a meeting of global memebership and on other than economic issues, such as the Assembly. Inevitably an enquiry such as we made acquires a more formal character as it is transmitted through the UN bureaucracy. We heard of it from the Director of the Legal Counsels Office, as an application for separate representation on which that Office had been asked to advise. If this had got about, it could have caused a flurry, particularly with the Chinese, who might have seen sinister political motives in this (I think) unprecedented enquiry/"application".
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