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MFA
6.
The United Kingdom has accepted the MFA on Hong Kong's behalf. If, as we propose, Hong Kong becomes a separate Contracting Party to the GATT, continuing participation of Hong Kong in the MFA would be secured simply by Hong Kong notifying the GATT Director-General
its wishes in this respect.
of
CCC
7.
as its position declaration
Hong Kong's position in the CCC is analagous in the GATT. We therefore propose to make a parallel
under the convention establishing
establishing the CCC at the s ame time as we
make the declaration to the GATT.
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HONG KONG'S AUTONOMY IN THE CONDUCT OF ITS EXTERNAL ECONOMIC
RELATIONS
8.
On 5 June, Mr Galsworthy
submitted on the problem of how we
should avoid legal challenge to
legal challenge to a declaration by HMG under the GATT
that Hong Kong
external
full possesses
commercial relations.
autonomy in the conduct
its
Ministers agreed that we should
of
consult the Law Officers on the constitutional propriety of making
such statement and on the need to proceed with formal
of
a
instrument
a
instrument
is
now
entrustment. The Attorney General has now agreed that we should be justified in contending that Hong Kong enjoys this autonomy and
The way of entrustment.
open, therefore, to put this paper to the Chinese. We will put the
letter of
entrustment in hand and will inform the Chinese of it in
that
we
should issue
an
the Joint Liaison Group in order to avoid any suspicions that might be engendered at later date through a leak ог because we need to
make public reference to it.
a
9. I have discussed this submission with Mr Galsworthy, who is
otherwise engaged today.
I have discussed the
In draft with the Defelment
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and
agree proposed.
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with what i
L.G. Ehrman
W G Ehrman
Hong Konn Department
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