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Mr Plant, Legal Advisers ) Separate copies Mr Barton, HKD

HONG KONG PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO IMO

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Hong Kong telno 1001 below.

This business is becoming tedious in the extreme!

My initial reactions to the points raised in TUR are:

Paragraph 1, a precedent has obviously been set. But there is no point in getting involved in a slanging match with Mr Mensah;

Paragraph 2, I doubt whether Mr Mensah would appreciate this fine point as much as we do;

The suggestion in paragraph 3 is flawed in that Hong Kong does not yet have a permanent representative. I doubt whether Mr Chan could act in this way in his capacity as Marine Adviser. Perhaps Mr Plant could comment on this?

4.

On the basis that paragraph 3 of TUR is a non-starter I suggest we so inform Hong Kong and ask them to now let us know which of the two previous proposals put to them (our telno 743) they intend to adopt.

I have asked Frank Wall for his comments. views you may have.

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Grateful for any

Gronden Sun Jun

16 March 1987

G G Simpson

Maritime, Aviation and Environment Department WH MZ 12

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