TNAG-1153-FCO40-1433-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-international-organisations-1982 — Page 50

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Miss B J Parkin

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HONG KONG: SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

1.

Please refer to Bruce Mackenzie's letter to you of 17 March concerning the supplementary agreement which the UK is being asked to sign to take account of the fact that Hong Kong is a recipient of funds under the IAEA's technical assistance programme. We also had some subsequent correspondence on this subject (your letters of 30 April and 19 May refer).

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2. In the intervening time consultation has taken place with the Hong Kong Government to ensure that we had their consent to proceed with the proposed Agreement. This consent has now been given. The draft attached to Bruce Mackenzie's letter has been revised to take account of the fact that the Agreement is being concluded by the UK in respect only of Hong Kong.

3. I am enclosing a revised draft of the agreement which has been prepared in consultation with our Treaty Section and our Legal Advisers and which has their approval.

4.

Subject to your views, I recommend that this revised text should be sent to the Embassy in Vienna for onward transmission to the IAEA's Legal Division.

5. As regards administrative procedure the following points should be noted:

(a) There should be two originals of the Agreement, one for the

UK Government and one for the IAEA.

(b) In our copy the UK takes precedence

our signature comes first.

this simply means that

(c) The Agreement needs to be in English only.

(d) Despite the fact that the original draft had already been

/signed