CONFIDENTIAL
British High Commission
80 Elgin Street Ottawa Ontario K1P 5K7
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BRITISH HIGH
COMMISSION
Hong Kong Department
FCO
Dear Department,
HONG KONG AND GATT: BRIEFING OF CONTRACTING PARTIES
Your reference
Our reference H014/1
Date
28 April 1986
1. The Canadians have slipped us (please protect) the text of the
démarche delivered to them by the Chinese Ambassador on 16 April. I
enclose a copy, in case it contains an arcane message indecypherable by
us. We have compared it with the «line to take» in your tel to Canberra,
and it seems to us to say very much the same thing, if in slightly
different words. The first part of your para 7 has come forward to
become their third para, and has been slightly shortened. The latter
part of your para 7 has been omitted. A certain amount of extra wording
has appeared in their second paragraph: underlined in the enclosed copy.
STRY
HKK 122/1
RECE VEL IN
12 MAY 1986
You
ever,
Richard Baker
CC:
en
R H Baker
Asst Political Adviser
Governor's Office
Hong Kong
Chancery, Peking
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