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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

香港下亞畢道

* Our Ref.:

SCR 2/1476/82

M. Hare

2 July 1982

* YOUR Ref.:

R D Clift, Esq, HKGD

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Bordoy Liaison

Hong Kong/Guangdong Border Liaison

In my letter of 10 November 1981 to Mark Elliott, I reported on talks held in Canton on 31 October to review the Border Liaison arrangements set up by David Wilson six months earlier.

2.

A Guangdong team visited Hong Kong last week for a second 6-monthly review meeting. I attach copies of the record of the review meeting itself and of the programme for the visit. which lasted from 21 to 24 June.

3.

A glance at the record will show that there was not much of substance to discuss. The Guangdong side were clearly well satisfied with the system agreed at the last meeting of conducting as much business as possible through liaison officers. So were

The only improvement we had to propose was that customs liaison officers should be appointed by both sides in addition to the present police and immigration liaison officers. This suggestion reflected the increasing exchange of information on smuggling and narcotics matters. The Chinese undertook to consider the idea.

4.

You will also see from the record that I took the opportunity to raise the question of legal immigration. This was because it had been discussed on previous occasions with ZHANG Jiannan, and he has responsibility for the implementation of the quota scheme, though not of course for deciding policy. ZHANG's response to my recapitulation of the proposals we had put forward last November was on predictable lines. If the Guangdong authorities are doing any serious thinking about the problem they have not carried it much further forward in the

last six months. Indeed, there seems a risk that the considered

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