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MIPT: INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS PROPOSAL TO OPEN

REGIONAL DELEGATION IN HONG KONG

FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF TELELETTER FROM D J MOSS, UKMIS GENEVA TO

CO HUM, HKD OF 1 DECEMBER.

BEGINS

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I BELIEVE THAT ARRANGEMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE FOR

PETER KUNG, THE ICRC'S DELEGATE-GENERAL FOR EUROPE, TO CALL ON

YOU AT 4PM, ON WEDNESDAY, 10 DECEMBER. KUNG PLANS TO RAISE WITH

YOU AN ICRC PROPOSAL TO OPEN A REGIONAL DELEGATION IN HONG KONG.

2.

WHEN I SAW KUNG ON OTHER BUSINESS ON FRIDAY EVENING I

ASKED HIM FOR FURTHER BACKGROUND. KUNG SAID THAT THE ICRC HAD

HAD A REGIONAL DELEGATION IN MANILA FOR SOME TIME, BUT BECAUSE OF

PRESSURES IN THE PHILIPPINES THIS WAS INCREASINGLY UNABLE TO COPE

WITH THE ICRC'S WORK ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION. FOR THIS REASON THE ICRC HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR ANOTHER CENTRE IN WHICH TO

ESTABLISH AN OFFICE WHICH WOULD COVER CHINA, TAIWAN, JAPAN, THE

TWO KOREAS, HONG KONG AND MACAU. NATURALLY, BECAUSE OF ITS

EXCELLENT POSITION AND COMMUNICATIONS, THEY HAD SETTLED UPON HONG

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