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officers should exercise flexibility in their handling of day to day matters. Their success in this was fully borne out not`

only by the impressive record of the meetings and telephone

calls between liaison officers, but also by the fact that there

had been no need to convene a meeting of the full Border Liaison

Committee.

3.

In addition to Mr. ZHANG's list of matters dealt with

through border liaison, Mr. McLaren noted two others: -

(a) The successful visit to Guangdong by Hong Kong's

Commissioner of Customs and Excise in November,

as a result of which the two customs services had

agreed that each side should appoint two customs

liaison officers;

(b)

the equally useful visit to Hong Kong by a Guangdong

Public Security Bureau (CID) last December. This

had brought even closer the existing liaison on police matters especially in the fields of counter-

feiting and forgery. One result of December's visit

had been the assistance presently being offered by

the Police Dog Unit in Hong Kong in arranging the

purchase of police dogs for Guangdong PSB.

Substantive Points

Annual Review Meetings

4.

Mr. ZHANG proposed that as most of the procedural points

affecting border liaison had been ironed out, full review

meetings need only be held once a year. Mr. McLaren agreed,

and said that the Hong Kong side would propose a date for a meeting in Hong Kong in due course. Mr. ZHANG suggested that

November would be a good time.

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