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CONFIDENTIAL
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ILO PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MARITIME CONFERENCE
WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEXT PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MAPITIME
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION WILL TAKE
PLACE IN GENEVA BETWEEN 5TH MAY AND 16TH MAY 1986, AND THAT THE
UNITED KINGDOM HAS BEEN INVITED TO SEND A DELEGATION.
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THE HONG KONG SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION HAS EXPRESSED THE WISH
THAT HONG KONG WILL BE REPRESENTED IN SOME FORM OP OTHER AT THE
CONFERENCE. HONG KONG HAS PREVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED DIRECTLY IN THE
1969 CONFERENCE, AND AN ADVISER FROM THE HONG KONG SHIPOWNERS'
ASSOCIATION ACCOMPANIED THE UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATION TO THE 1975
CONFERENCE.
BEFORE WE CAN CONSIDER WHETHER HONG KONG'S PARTICIPATION IS
DESIRABLE, WE WISH TO CLARIFY CERTAIN POINTS. WE HAVE NO PECORDS OF THE PULES AND PROCEDURES OF CONFERENCES OF THIS KIND, ANY
INFORMATION YOU CAN LET US HAVE ON THE PRESENT CONSTITUTIONAL
POSITION OF NON-METROPOLITAN TERRITORIES AND THE RULES AND PROCEDURES OF THE CONFERENCE, PARTICULARLY AS PEGARDS THE COMPOSTION AND SELECTION OF DELEGATIONS AND THE MODE OF TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS, WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER THE UNITED KINGDOM (INTENDS TO SEND A DELEGATION TO THE
CONFERENCE. IF SO, AND SSUMING THERE ARE NO POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS FOR HONG KONG'S ATTENDANCE (WE UNDERSTAND CHANA HAS ALSO PEEN INVITED TO SEND A DELEGATION), WOULD THERE BE ANY OBJECTION IN PRINCIPLE TO ADVISERS FROM HONG KONG ACCOMPANYING THIS DELEGATION?
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