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CONFIDENTIAL

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FM HONG KONG

TO PRIORITY FCO

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ILO PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MARITIME CONFERENCE

WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEXT PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MAP ITIME

CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OPGANISATION WILL TAKE

PLACE IN GENEVA BETWEEN 5TH 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 REPPESENTED IN SOME FORM OP OTHEP AT THE

CONFERENCE. HONG KONG HAS PREVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED DIRECTLY IN THE

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

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

INFOPMATION 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 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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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

16 JAN 1986

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INDLA

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RECISTRY Action TakeA

(REPEATED AS REQUESTED)

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