TNAG-1519-FCO40-2080-Employment-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 152

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FROM:

T J DAVID

FOLLOWING FOR: D BLEAKLEY ESQ, UND, FCO

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY 27 JAN1986

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REGISTRY Action Taken:

: D C ALEXANDER ESQ AND R & SIRRETT ESQ, OA3, DEPT OF

EMPLOYMENT

FED, FCO

HKD, FCO

ILO: HONG KONG AND THE ILO PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MARITIME CONFERENCE

1. IT MAY BE THAT THE ANSWERS TO ALL THE QUESTIONS SET OUT IN HONG

KONG TELEGRAM NUMBER 165 OF 16 JANUARY ARE AVAILABLE IN LONDON. BUT IN CASE THEY ARE NOT, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION, WHICH RESULTS FROM DISCREET ENQUIRIES WITHIN THE ILO SECRETARIAT, MAY BE OF USE TO YOU.

2. THE RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE ADOPTED UNDER

AN EARLY AGENDA ITEM. THEY WILL BE BASED ON A MODEL SET OF PULES

DRAWN UP IN 1976 FOR THIS SORT OF MEETING BUT WILL HAVE BEEN ADAPTED IN ADVANCE BY THE SECRETARIAT TO MEET THE LIKELY NEEDS OF THIS

PARTICULAR CONFERENCE.

3. PARTICIPATION IS AT THE INVITATION OF THE GOVERNING BODY (08).

THE LATTER DECIDED BOTH ON THE CRITERIA FOR CHOICE AND AN INVITATION

LIST (WHICH INCLUDES CHINA) AT ITS 229TH SESSION IN NOVEMBER 1984

AND ADDED TO THE LATTER AT ITS 230TH SESSION IN JUNE LAST YEAR (ILO

DOCS GB.228/22/9 AND GB.230/17/11 REFER: COPY EXTRACTS BY BAG, MOT

TO ALL). THE RELEVANT TEXTS REFER TO THE ISSUE OF INVITATIONS TO

**COUNTRIES' OR (ILO) MEMBER STATES''.

4. AS THINGS STAND AT PRESENT HONG KONG COULD ONLY PARTICIPATE IN

THIS CONFERENCE IN AN OBSERVER CAPACITY AS PART OF A UK DELEGATION.

IT WOULD HOWEVER BE OPEN TO US, IF WE WISHED, TO PROPOSE TO THE FORTHCOMING GB (20 FEBRUARY-7 MARCH) THAT AN INVITATION TO BE ISSUED TO HONG KONG TO ATTEND IN ITS OWN RIGHT (THUS PRESUMABLY CREATING A

NEW CATEGORY OF INVITEE). YOU WILL NO DOUBT WISH TO CONSIDER THE

POSSIBLE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SINGLING OUT HONG KONG IN THIS

FASHION. SHOULD YOU NONETHELESS CONTEMPLATE THIS SECOND COURSE, IT

MIGHT BE WISE TO ARRANGE PRIOR SOUNDINGS (HERE) WITH THE SHIPOWNERS!

AND SEAFARERS' GROUPS.

SIGNED....T J DAVID

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