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DB2AIN

CONFIDENTIAL L

HKK 04

10/8 F

4390

FROM: A C Galsworthy, HKD

DATE: 12 September 1985

Mr Miller, MVD

MEXICAN VISA REQUIREMENTS ON HONG KONG BDTC

1. Your minute to Ehrman of 10 September refers.

2.

Briefly, we did have s ome reservations on your draft letter which, although covered by a minute dated 15 August, was not received in this Department until 19 August, the day before the letter was despatched. We could not comment immediately because of pressure

of other work but we we re on the point of sending you

received a our suggestions when we

copy of the letter as despatched. We appreciate that you wanted to send

off

instructions to Mexico City as soon as

but in view of

your

for which

possible,

are grateful, we

the importance of the subject and the obvious interest of Hong Kong Department, I think

been it might have worth a telephone call to us to confirm whether we had any comments or not, before the letter was sent off.

3.

have

I now see that you suspend action on your letter for the time being.

consider

asked Mexico City to

You

following

the therefore

might like to comments based mainly on paragraph 6 of the letter and which could be used by the post as additional material

if

raise the Mexicans

the question of the

BN(O)s under the new arrangements:

status

of

has

for

the

been given status in the Hong Kong Act

(a)

Parliamentary

approval

creation of BN (O)

1985; and

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