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HKK 210/

JVED IN RIV

27 AUG 1986

DESK OFFICER

Foreign and Commonwealth Office*

London SW1A 2AH

C T Wood Esq

Assistant Political Adviser I

HONG KONG

Telephone 01233 4439

т.

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Your reference

Our reference

НКК 210/1

Date

27 August 1986

Dew Clus

1.

recent

You may wish purely for the record to know about a call on HKD by Mr David Evans, HM Deputy Chief inspector of Factories at the Department of Employment's Health and Safety Executive. (It has taken me a reprehensibly long time to put pen to paper on this, and I am relying heavily on my and ILA's notes accordingly.)

2.

Mr Evans called on HKD, under arrangements made by Assistant ILA Mr T M Ellis, on 5 August. Briefly, Mr Evans is due to visit China on 10 October to late November as part of an ILO team which will be

be organising two seminars on industrial health and safety issues; Mr Evans had therefore asked the FCO to give him some general briefing on Chinese and ong Kong labour matters.

3. On Hong Kong issues the briefing I gave was inevitably very general, since Mr Evans was not sure who he would be meeting from

Chinese officialdom,

if nor

he would have among

the time ΟΙ opportunity to

in HKG officials during his

during his stopover Kong. I explained briefly:

meet

(a) Hong Kong's wide degree of autonomy in determining its

to (I referred

Hong Kong's now extensive and sophisticated labour legislation);

Own

labour

policies

(b) the need for HMG and HKG to consider soon how Hong Kong could continue to participate in the ILO after 1997 the need to discuss this with the Chinese in the cont of our now established bilateral machinery considering how such international rights and obligat could continue to apply to Hong Kong;

(c)

(d)

our impression from contacts between Chinese, UK and Kong labour officials in the ILO margins that the Ch would wish to see Hong Kong continue to participa the ILO, as far as was possible, after 1997;

as a more immediate problem, the need for HMG ar Kong to consider how IL conventions could continue necessary,

to apply to Hong Kong despite denunciation by the UK;

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Hong

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