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CODE 18-78

1

· 3 SEP 1986

My Fifoot

1. Plance

CONFIDENTIAL.

Reference...

438

We spoke P.f. 27. 11

27.00

HONG KONG : JAPANESE LEGAL WORRIES.

the attached letter. Grateful for any

see

advice

you

Cam

offer. I find Japanese

obscure.

concerne

ratter

2. Om GATT, we've been over the ground with them. We've nuggested to the Chinese that we and they

might have

one more

до

the Chinese reaction.

(the Japanese), at them Land

we await

3. On C of Is, when the exchange of remoranda we're aurently discussing with the thirose is agreed and published it might be worth

with the

ow

while having

a word

Jungness to explain that, post-97, cq ls issued before that date will be legally valid by virtue If expheit therese agreement to allow them to the conturine to be valid (which seems

of

no more

than a

statement

J

the obvious to me

!).

4. More generally, do

think it would be possible to

you

find

some words of comfort that would set hearts at ease in the Japanese legal division?

Tom Smith 2018.

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