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22 JAN 1986
CONFIDENTIAL
2211
FROM: D C Wilson
6
DATE:
20 January 1986
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OFFICEL
REGIS
INDEX
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Action Taken
Mr Fuller
STAFFING OF JOINT LIAISON GROUP AND HONG KONG CONSULATE-GENERAL
1.
cc:
Sir W Harding
Chief Clerk
Mr Long
Mrs Campbell, Training Mr Galsworthy, HKD Mr Orr, FED
The Chief Clerk minuted to you on 7 November about staffing the Joint Liaison Group and the Hong Kong Consulate- General. I have since discussed these questions with HKD and
FED.
Joint Liaison Group
2.
I think the British side on the Joint Liaison Group will be able to cope with existing resources until 1988. Under the terms of the Joint Declaration the Group will be principally based in Hong Kong from 1 July 1988, although it will continue to meet in London and Peking. The Chinese
will almost certainly open an office in Hong Kong at that time headed by their senior representative, of Ambassadorial level. We may well have to do the same. I will let you have a paper on this subject as soon as other preoccupations allow those concerned to get down to drafting it.
Consulate-General
- See 031/4
3. The annex to Mr Ehrman's minute of 29 October describing the structure of the Consulate-General in Hong Kong after 1997 was, I understand, produced by PPD in conjunction with other departments (attached). The Ambassador in Peking has also commented on the size of the proposed Consulate-General suggesting that it is too large in comparison with the Embassy. The subject will certainly need further study but the Consulate- General will need to be very substantial in Che years following
I think we 1997, although we may be able to reduce it later. will need something like the staff predicted in PPD's note.
My detailed comments are:
a)
Consul-General: he will almost certainly need to
be senior grade in the aftermath of the transfer of sovereignty in 1997. There may be advantage in our senior representative on the Joint Liaison
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