TNAG-1519-FCO40-2080-Employment-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 178

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ILO PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MARITIME COMFERENCE

WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEXT PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MARITIME

CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OPGANISATION WILL TAKE

PLACE IN GENEVA BETWEEN STH MAY AND 16TH MAY 1986, AND THAT THE

UNITED KINGDOM HAS BEEN INVITED TO SEND A DELEGATION.

THE HONG KONG SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION HAS EXPRESSED THE WISH

THAT HONG KONG WILL BE REPRESENTED IN SOME FORM OF OTHER AT THE

CONFERENCE. HONG KONG HAS PREVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED DIRECTLY IN THE

1969 CONFERENCE, AND AN ADVISER FROM THE HONG KONG SHIPOVNEPS'

ASSOCIATION ACCOMPANIED THE UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATION TO THE 1975

CONFERENCE.

BEFORE WE CAN CONSIDER WHETHER HONG KONG'S PAPTICIPATION IS

DESIRABLE, WE WISH TO CLARIFY CEPTAIN 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 COMFERENCE. IF SO, AND SSUMING THERE ARE NO POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS FOR HONG KONG'S ATTENDANCE (WE UNDERSTAND CHINA HAS ALSO BEEN INVITED TO SEND A DELEGATION), WOULD THERE BE ANY OBJECTION IN PRINCIPLE TO ADVISERS FROM HONG KONG ACCOMPANYING THIS DELEGATION?

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(REPEATED AS REQUESTED)