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PP HOKON

FM FCOLN TO HOKON

231240Z SEP

GRS 167

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TO PRIORITY HONG KONG

TELNO 2025

OF 231240Z SEPTEMBER 86

AND TO PRIORITY PEKING

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RECEIVED

REGISTRY

26 SEP 1986

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OUR TELNO 1819: NATIONALITY: INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF BN(0)

PASSPORTS

1.

WE ARE NEARLY READY TO START THIS EXERCISE. THE NOTES TO

MISSIONS IN LONDON WILL BE DATED 30 SEPTEMBER (ALTHOUGH WILL PROBABLY NOT GO OUT UNTIL THE NEXT DAY). THE LETTERS TO HEADS OF MISSION WILL BE DESPATCHED BY BAG TODAY OR TOMORROW. DEPENDING

ON WHEN POSTS RECEIVE THE LETTERS THEREFORE AND WHEN APPOINTMENTS CAN BE MADE, PARALLEL "ACTION ABROAD SHOULD HAVE COMMENCED IN THE

FIRST TWO WEEKS OF OCTOBER.

2.

FOR PEKING. AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE YOUR COPY OF THE

LETTER PLEASE HAND A COPY OF THE NOTE TO MISSIONS IN LONDON TO

THE CHINESE AS A COURTESY. YOU COULD REFER TO THE BRIEFING WE GAVE THE CHINESE AT JLG IV (OUR TELNO 1550 TO HONG KONG) BUT

THERE IS NO NEED TO ADD TO IT.

HOWE

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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

HD/NTD

RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)

DEP HD/PUSD

PS

PS/MR RENTON

PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING MR WILSON MR BARRINGTON

COPIES TO:

MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT

MR FIFOOT,

LEGAL ADVISERS

MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD

MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE

MF EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON

MF NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE.

ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE

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