TNAG-1263-FCO40-1606-Parliamentary-contacts-on-the-future-of-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 184

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I am so sorry that we have not been able to arrange

a lunch together before we both go off on holiday.

I hope this will be possible later in the year.

In the meantime I thought it might be useful if I

gave you some initial thoughts on your interesting idea

of forming a City Group to coordinate and liaise on

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Hong Kong matters. Without knowing exactly what you have

in mind, I wonder if such a Group might not overlap

with the existing Hong Kong Association,

which already brings together a very wide and varied

number of firms in the commercial and financial fields

with an interest in Hong Kong. Have you come across them?

Their chairman is John Swire and they have in the past

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seen Ministers on a number of questions, including the

future of Hong Kong.

There is also, on the

semi-official side, a

Hong Kong Trade Advisory Group, under the British Overseas

Trade Board, which leads on practical export promotion

work connected with Hong Kong. The chairman of this is

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