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TO ROUTINE HONG KONG

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

TELEGRAM NUMBER 1268 OF 29 NOVEMBER

AND TOPORT LOUIS

MAURITIAN INTEREST IN HONG KONG

1-1983

Desk OFFICEA

PA

"ÉQUTRY Mution Taken

1. WHEN THE NEW MAUTITIUS HIGH COMMISSIONER MR NATH PAID A

COURTESY CALL RECENTLY ON MR RIFKIND, HE SAID THAT PRESENT

MAURITIAN ECONOMIC POLICY WAS 'TO ATTRACT INWARD INVESTMENT,

PARTICULARLY FROM HONG KONG. THE AIM WAS TO PERSUADE THOSE

MILLIONAIRES WHO WERE ANXIOUS TO LEAVE TO BRING THEIR MONEY AND

MANAGERIAL SKILLS TO MAURITIUS. A DELEGATION WOULD BE GOING TO

HONG KONG ON 21 NOVEMBER TO TRY TO PERSUADE THEM TO DO SO'.

WE ASSUME THIS REFERS TO THE DELEGATION LED BY SIR GAETAN

DUVAL REFERRED TO IN HONG KONG TELNO 3 TO PORT LOUIS. NO DOUBT

THOSE OFFICIALS IN HONG KONG WHO MET THE DELEGATION WILL HAVE

DONE THEIR BEST TO INSTIL IN ITS MEMBERS MINDS THE NEED TO AVOID ANY MOVES, PARTICULARLY PUBLIC ONES, WHICH COULD DAMAGE CONFIDENC

IN HONG KONG AT THIS PRESENT SENSITIVE TIME.

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3. IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF PORT LOUIS COULD BEAR THIS IN MIND AND, WITHOUT REFERRING TO THE CALL ON MR RIFKIND, MAKE APPROPRIAT NOISES WHEN OPPORTUNITIES ARISE. (SEE ALSO OUR GUIDANCE TELNO

153 OF 18 NOVEMBER).

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