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Possible abolition of Visas For Hong Kong passport holders visiting the Federal Republic of Germany
Many thanks for your help with the Scandinavians. A sight of Bob Low's letters to the posts concerned gave us much encouragement.
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Now please refer to my letter of 28 March to you about the Germans.
Alfred Khuen has now returned from Bonn and has confirmed that he floated the idea of visa abolition along the lines described in Alan Carter's memo enclosed with that letter. Kuehn takes the view that sufficient time has now elapsed since his approach for representations to be made by the Embassy in Bonn without arousing suspicions of collusion between Kuehn and the Hong Kong Machine. He has indeed said that he would have no objection if the Embassy were to say, in any approach, that they understood the subject was under review.
Provided you and Bonn see no objection, I think the
I time has come to raise the matter (not for the first time, realise), deploying the political arguments outlined in paras 4a-g of my letter of 28 March.
All the arguments against the German visa requirements
These are which we have deployed in the past remain valid. set out in the then Lord Privy Seal's letter of 29 January 1982 to Frau Hamm-Bruecher at the Auswartiges Amt. But their removal now would be even more useful than it would have been then.
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(J.D.I. Boyd)
Political Adviser
cc: B.B. Low, Esq., MVD, FCO
Chancery Bonn
D. Jones, Esq., Brussels
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